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: 103376,85d5a13738392342 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unknown discriminants with nested records Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:33:56 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <1e197c14-a2ff-4867-85be-fda06a10e37b@a7g2000vby.googlegroups.com> <2191e8b5-e827-41e8-b8a0-f02b8a68362c@v10g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jhB4zEd8h0hVueABBEv+1w.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.11 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20921 Date: 2011-06-18T10:33:56+02:00 List-Id: Le Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:50:52 +0200, Robert A Duff = a =C3=A9crit: > Jeff Carter is correct about the original reason for the (<>) feature > -- to fix the generic contract model, which was broken in Ada 83. This also had the nice side effect to allow to define types forcing = entities initialization. (if that was really as Jeff said with Ada 83, that was indeed a sad hole= ) -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [Ep= igrams on = Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale University] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [Idem] Java: Write once, Never revisit