From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beaujolais Challenge Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 19:39:54 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <939678797@f172.n1.z21.fsxnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:39:52 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="47c368f493730bbeceb2803619c16071"; logging-data="2921868"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19HLmgTY5/4yTz1IMTBqB5R" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:i+AOojORRw1bonQAkDFy8DpTXvE= In-Reply-To: <939678797@f172.n1.z21.fsxnet> Content-Language: en-US, fr Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:65901 List-Id: Le 10/12/2023 à 00:34, jklsemicolon a écrit : > More than twenty years ago as high schooler digging into the stacks at a > community college library, I came across a book on Ada where a chapter epigraph > referenced a bug bounty where the finder of some variety of bug in the Ada > language specification would receive a case of wine. Does this ring any bells? > I realize that this is quite vague, but I didn't have the CS background then > to appreciate what I was reading, and events have taken me quite far from that > shelf on that day. > > ... We all live in a yellow subroutine... > Sure. Ichbiah bet that the addition or removal of a use clause could cause compilation errors, but could not give a working program with a different meaning (a different resolution). John Goodenough came up with such a case (a very contrived case, involving several levels of generics). I'm not sur that Ichbiah offered the bottle... The so-called beaujolais effect was fixed in Ada95. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX https://www.adalog.fr https://www.adacontrol.fr