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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:01:48 +0200
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Hi, very good topic :-D

Le Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:47:06 +0200, Martin <martin@thedowies.com> a =C3=A9=
crit:

> Ok, we don't officially have Ada2012
No, we still don't, as long as compiler support is=E2=80=A6 well, not pe=
rfect.

> yet but as no new features are going to be added to it, now seems like=
 a  =

> good time to start thinking about the next revision.
>
> My starters for 10 are:
>
> 1) 1st class functions / lambdas
> 2) parallel loops / functions
> 3) Multiple dispatch
>
> -- Martin


Mine:

1) in/out specification at call place (as a recall, for explicitness, ju=
st  =

like named parameters are)
2) coroutine (well, resume next invocation at the place it previously  =

returned, with all locals preserved) (*)
3) SML signature=E2=80=91like for package (ability to write a specificat=
ion of  =

what minimal requirements other package have to specify at least)
4) constant as anonymous functions (just like enumeration items are) (**=
)
5) + the somethings I forget I will recall some later day.

Cheese! :-D

(*) You can fake it with task, but that cost a lot!

(**) May break backward compatibility? Actually, you can fake it using  =

function just returning always the same value, but that's source bloat a=
nd  =

that's ugly.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity