From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,23c0de5a42cf667e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Yannick_Duch=EAne_=28Hibou57=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 20:45:18 +0200 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <87mxw9x7no.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra5wLii/U0tbQP170oFAeA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.53 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11459 Date: 2010-05-10T20:45:18+02:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 10 May 2010 10:02:45 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =E9crit: > Maybe FSF will gain in 1-2 years, but then Ada 2012 will appear, break= ing > it again. Yes, it happens I'm thinking about that trouble, as I'm waiting for long= = for the Programing By Contract (tm) capabilities (I use to be an Eiffel = = advocator for some times in the past). As I'm pretty sure they will not = be = support for that in the GCC or MinGW version, I was thinking I will = probably go for a fall-back : just modify the actual version so that it = = will at least accept the syntax, so as to be able to write these pre- an= d = post-conditions for documentation purpose. There will be not check at = runtime (should be nice to ensure validity of expressions contained in t= he = pre- and post- by the way), but this will at least allow to write it (a = = fall-back, as I said). 2012 in very close... -- = No-no, this isn't an oops ...or I hope (TM) - Don't blame me... I'm just= = not lucky