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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: "functional" programming in Ada
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:26:52 +0100
Date: 2018-03-06T17:26:52+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p7mfgc$eua$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd48925d-5cac-465c-96c3-a392f0ce4079@googlegroups.com>

On 03/06/2018 03:36 PM, Mehdi Saada wrote:
>>  From a compiler writer POV I may understand it for the same reasons we
>> have the private part in the spec.
> How come ? Why should the compiler handle those functions differently than normal functions whose body is forbidden to be anywhere else than in the package body ?

According to the Ada-12 Rationale, expression functions were added to help with 
contracts.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"He that hath no beard is less than a man."
Much Ado About Nothing
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-06 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-06 11:34 "functional" programming in Ada Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-06 13:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-06 14:35   ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-06 15:08     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-06 16:00       ` Manuel Collado
2018-03-06 16:37         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-06 22:16           ` Manuel Collado
2018-03-07  8:41             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-07  4:46         ` Paul Rubin
2018-03-06 13:29 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-03-06 14:34   ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-06 14:36     ` Mehdi Saada
2018-03-06 15:27       ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-06 16:26       ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2018-03-06 20:17       ` Randy Brukardt
2018-03-07 14:30         ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-06 15:01 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-03-06 15:25   ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-07 10:07 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-03-07 10:52   ` Mehdi Saada
2018-03-07 13:11     ` Pascal Obry
2018-03-07 13:53       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-07 16:13       ` Dan'l Miller
2018-03-12  0:13         ` Robert I. Eachus
2018-03-08  3:34       ` Randy Brukardt
2018-03-08  8:23         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-08 22:49           ` G. B.
2018-03-09  8:38             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-09  8:40           ` Simon Wright
2018-03-09 13:39             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-07 15:03   ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-07 15:16     ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-07 20:34     ` Robert A Duff
2018-03-07 22:47     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-03-08  0:26     ` Shark8
2018-03-08  0:45     ` Paul Rubin
2018-03-08 11:07       ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-08 18:24 ` G. B.
2018-03-09 14:41   ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
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