From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 2dsa | !2dsa ? Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:56:35 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2fa5a097-a0a6-4614-b990-ee70b89ab470n@googlegroups.com> <578126cd-507b-4e6b-8c08-31a115773bd2n@googlegroups.com> <30f2c0d8-58c2-4ca9-bfd6-2aa38309d27cn@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:60973 List-Id: On 2020-12-29 00:41, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Rod Kay" wrote in message > news:30f2c0d8-58c2-4ca9-bfd6-2aa38309d27cn@googlegroups.com... >> Apologies for the prior empty post. >> >> Is it likely that the ARG might address the aformentioned issues ? > > As of now, it doesn't appear that there would be any point. Annex E is an > optional annex, and so far as we're aware, no compiler vendor has any plans > for increasing support for that annex. So the ARG could change the annex but > it seems unlikely that any changes would make it into implementations. > (We've been told not to expect even the implementation of bugs fixes > included in Ada 202x, even from the vendor that originally requested the bug > fixes.) Why there should be any vendor support in the first place? Why not to redefine it as a set of abstract tagged types allowing custom user implementations like storage pools and streams do? The idea of having an IDL, statically assigned partitions, linking everything together before start is not the way the distributed systems are designed and work today. CORBA died for a reason. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de