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: a07f3367d7,39579ad87542da0e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Received: by 10.180.11.239 with SMTP id t15mr1642971wib.3.1368583185662; Tue, 14 May 2013 18:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Path: p18ni110061wiv.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.103.MISMATCH!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.138.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!news.astraweb.com!border2.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!newsfeed10.multikabel.net!multikabel.net!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!nrc-news.nrc.ca!News.Dal.Ca!citadel.nobulus.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!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: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 09:59:18 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <17ceq51ydy3s0.s94miqqzbg5w.dlg@40tude.net> <1vrhb7oc4qbob$.q02vuouyovp5$.dlg@40tude.net> <19lrzzbgm77v6.1dzpgqckptaj6.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 7OQr3E3VjE1ZKDv7Xqqyjg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2013-05-08T09:59:18+02:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 08 May 2013 09:38:03 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > On Tue, 7 May 2013 15:35:01 -0500, Jacob Sparre Andersen news wrote: > >> The main thing is that >> the result most certainly would not be Ada, but rather would be a new= >> language *inspired by* Ada. > > No, that was the path taken by Ada 2005 and Ada 2012. Patches are > destroying the language fabric. > > What I wish is to change the language foundation while keeping the > semantics of existing types intact. The whole idea is to move them ont= o = > the library level rather than changing anything in them. Eiffel had this; all types were at what would have been library level fo= r = Eiffel. But it was too much lacking expressiveness in defining numeric = = types (ex. you could not cleanly specify ranges). -- = =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