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Subject: Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 06:39:27 +0200
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Date: 2013-05-10T06:39:27+02:00
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Le Thu, 09 May 2013 23:43:29 +0200, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com=
>  =

a =C3=A9crit:

> If one starts over, you eliminate that need for absolute compatibility=
.  =

> You
> might still be fairly close to the semantics of Ada (although I don't =
see
> the point; it should be simplified by removing corner cases and little=
  =

> used
> stuff and features that are duplicative), but there is no need to prov=
e
> compatibility (or convince anyone of it). And you could fix obvious  =

> mistakes
> of Ada (objects don't overload, for one example, and the more general
> user-defined indexing that you would like, and so on) without having t=
o
> worry about the effects in private parts of nested packages -- which i=
s  =

> what
> prevents most progress today.
>
>                                            Randy.

Would already very nice!


-- =

=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