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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: G. B. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: article on acces types and dynamic serialization in Ada (2003) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:28:13 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <503e3322-ee8e-4d6f-9aa5-e7b98f87e8f8@googlegroups.com> <5d8580c2-b43d-4b2c-8a46-3a6ed33967aa@googlegroups.com> <434b1e3e-da5a-4846-8942-f7ec8ea6ce34@googlegroups.com> <87tvu8890r.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:28:13 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5f401bfa869a065845c8ba38987add76"; logging-data="27493"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX182jj5iVGq/wol6iu19Cwuf3KAHlMnYjeg=" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.3.1 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YAsmKghJe8wjXlZv8bBbqaLS60o= sha1:X2aEpfqqz13ZNo2XuWK3BbFQT1c= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50609 Date: 2018-02-23T20:28:13+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On 23/02/2018 08:23, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: >> Shark8 writes: >>> On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 4:49:04 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote: >> >>>> What default (read relatively cheap to read/write) implementation >>>> could possibly be sane? >>> >>> ASN.1 serialization/deserialization. >> >> That doesn't solve the problem of the compiler having to figure out how >> to interpret the access types. > > It does not solve any problem, being an utter abomination and horror to > anyone who must implement a protocol described in this form. Serialization isn‘t a protocol, though.