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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:42:25 +0200
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Le Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:30:38 +0200, Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> a =
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=C3=A9crit:

> On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:47:06 AM UTC-5, Martin wrote:
>> 2) parallel loops / functions
>
> This could already be done with a implementation-specific pragma,  =

> applied to a named loop; no?
>
> Granted, it's not in-the-language, but it sounds like exactly the sort=
  =

> of thing that implementation-specific pragmas should be used for:  =

> tweaking code generation. (And this format would comply by not alterin=
g  =

> the legality of the program.)

That's a good idea, and I was also wondering if my wish for coroutines, =
 =

could alternatively be reformulated as a wish for a pragma applying to  =

task types. There too, this would not alter the program's semantic, if  =

ever the pragma was not handled.

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