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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1901f265c928a511 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: new revision ada References: <40BDBBFA.2020203@noplace.com> <1087475285.166449@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <2jlepqF12qbb6U1@uni-berlin.de> From: Brian May X-Home-Page: http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~bam/ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:29:57 +1000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xu8I5mArY7MYctM/wWIP4sqG24A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-202-173-153-89.vic.westnet.com.au X-Trace: news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com 1087774197 202.173.153.89 (21 Jun 2004 09:29:57 +1000) X-Complaints-To: abuse@pipenetworks.com X-Abuse-Info: Please forward all headers to enable your complaint to be properly processed. Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1716 Date: 2004-06-21T09:29:57+10:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Nick" == Nick Roberts writes: Nick> In fact, this restriction is likely be lifted (in a very Nick> restricted way ;-) in the new revision of the Ada Nick> language. It has proved to be too inconvenient. Are the details of this new revision of Ada published anywhere? Personally I have very happy with Ada95 the way it is, the only exception being exception handling which tends to look restrictive now compared with, say Java exceptions (as functions declare what exceptions they can raise, and can pass more information in the exception instead of just a string). -- Brian May