Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:
> 
> > <snip> Write a piece of Ada code that declares a new type at run-time
> > based on a user's input, perhaps a derived type of a tagged type, and loads
> > it into the currently running program, instantiates it, and sticks it into
> > an array of heterogenous objects all derived from that type, dynamically
> > dispatching to them. Note that "stop everything, rewrite the program,
> > recompile, and start up again" is not acceptable. 
> 
> Right, Ada is not designed for this. Although the distributed annex
> comes close; you could change out a partition without restarting the
> other partitions.

I'm not sure this is true. To use this object the type must be known at
_compile_ time. Darren said "a new type at run-time", and to this question
I would answer no. The distributed annexe does not help here.

Pascal.

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