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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-16 03:56:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: mheaney@MHEANEYX200 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: From: Matthew Heaney Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:56:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.110.133.134 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1063709780 65.110.133.134 (Tue, 16 Sep 2003 06:56:20 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 06:56:20 EDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42567 Date: 2003-09-16T10:56:20+00:00 List-Id: Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com writes: > | I happen to think that access disciminants are quite elegant. > | They are > | quite general and powerful. Hardly "gimmicky" at all. > I also don't feel confortable with this idiom, probably due to some > primitive instinct that order me to run away from the "access" keyword :-) > But, conversely, that's not important. Access discriminants are the sine qua non of Ada95 programming. If you're not using access discriminants, then you're not utilizing the full power of Ada95.