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=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 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: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:48:24 +0200 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <2o8vq76hpv1m.vs7m2beo23nz.dlg@40tude.net> <1q5k4indthpli.1dn17o4ue4a15$.dlg@40tude.net> <4c0c1188$0$6887$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <4c0cd44f$0$6766$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <91w8y6qvtty4.16d1ujzrvbi44.dlg@40tude.net> <4c0cfda2$0$7653$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uc9w8JL/SPghnB/cvHTiUA.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:11423 Date: 2010-06-07T16:48:24+02:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:09:37 +0200, Georg Bauhaus = a =E9crit: > I still wonder why one would not want to > specify more than the subtype constraints can achieve Indeed, I oftenly had this in mind (what a type system will never be abl= e = to do). -- = There is even better than a pragma Assert: a SPARK --# check. --# check C and WhoKnowWhat and YouKnowWho; --# assert Ada; -- i.e. forget about previous premises which leads to conclusion -- and start with new conclusion as premise.