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: 103376,23c0de5a42cf667e X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!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: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:22:59 +0200 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <87mxw9x7no.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <16bz9kvbqa8y9$.155ntpwpwl29d.dlg@40tude.net> <4be97bea$0$2966$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <1p87qdlnjbufg.127laayhrw9x3$.dlg@40tude.net> <4j73xhgimt6r$.pu55kne2p2w5$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 2gba2B6ZhmveiNSbnmeIoQ.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: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11057 Date: 2010-05-26T14:22:59+02:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 26 May 2010 15:02:50 +0200, a = =E9crit: > Annotations are an addition to the original language. Annotations are > typically "hidden" in comments (from the viewpoint of the original > language). This is in constrast to contracts defined as a part of the > language itself. (Technically, the language with the annotations makes= a > new language ... but there is a gap between the normal part of the > language, and the comment-like annotations. This is just notation, no one can infer anything from such a premise. > I am a university teacher. For me, it makes quite a difference if I = > either > explain studens one coherent language where contracts are an integral = = > part > of (like Eiffel), or one programming langugage plus an additional = > language > for the annotations. For perception, this matter, I agree. -- = There is even better than a pragma Assert: a SPARK --# check.