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 10.180.85.5 with SMTP id d5mr1646431wiz.0.1368583585386; Tue, 14 May 2013 19:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Path: hg5ni110155wib.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.109.133.87.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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!news.litech.org!news.stack.nl!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: Fri, 10 May 2013 06:16:46 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <17ceq51ydy3s0.s94miqqzbg5w.dlg@40tude.net> <1vrhb7oc4qbob$.q02vuouyovp5$.dlg@40tude.net> <19lrzzbgm77v6.1dzpgqckptaj6.dlg@40tude.net> <1bfhq7jo34xpi.p8n2vq6yjsea.dlg@40tude.net> <12gn9wvv1gwfk.10ikfju4rzmnj.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uGUognJZXpdb++Da0QvCqg.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: 2013-05-10T06:16:46+02:00 List-Id: Le Fri, 10 May 2013 05:29:53 +0200, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57) = a =C3=A9crit: > [=E2=80=A6] A simple example, is paired invocation, where whenever a s= ub=E2=80=91program = > is is invoked, sooner or later, another sub=E2=80=91program must be in= voked too = > on the same argument, ex. like `Open` and later `Close`. This cannot b= e = > expressed with types and indeed requires assertions. > > But saying =E2=80=9Cweak=E2=80=9D may be erroneously interpreted, and = then, the type is = > still the first place to holds the validity rules. In the example abov= e, = > the paired invocation requirement, could be expressed in the type owni= ng = > these two primitives [=E2=80=A6] No, what I said on this is wrong, due to lack of precision. This have to= = be an assertion on the outer level, the state of the enclosing scope of = = the operations (an implicit value which cannot be explicitly referred to= = as a whole with Ada). -- = =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