Re: Ada-Oriented GUI

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Shark8" <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 12:43:51 PM UTC-6, briot.e...@gmail.com 
wrote:
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>> For me, the biggest obstacles were the need to instantiate a lot of 
>> generics,
>> because the streams are associated with data, then get combined to create
>> other types of data, and so on. So we ended up with a soup of
>> instantiations (on the user side), which I had not quite managed to tame.
>
>I had an idea about that, though even if I submit it now it wouldn't be put 
>in
> Ada 2020 -- but anyway, the idea was a sort of automatic instantiation.

Actually, there is an open AI on automatic instantiation, so this idea would 
get added to that AI. And this idea is *WAAAYYY* more sensible than that 
one, so I'd hope it was in the hopper. OTOH, we're in the process of 
prioritizing work for Ada 2020, and that is one of many AIs that might be on 
the chopping block (we have something like 60 open AIs and time to handle 
maybe 20, so something has to go).

This is a long-winded way of saying that you should submit it, there's some 
chance it might be acted on but it's hard to say how much.

 ...
>where the USE would instantiate Swap in Sort's instantiation; Swap itself 
>could
>be reached via Sort.Swap and used in that manner, thereby cleaning up a lot 
>of
>one-off instantiations.

Makes sense to me.

                     Randy.