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,ec264956a9d7e36a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-11 09:16:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Restrictions on compilers for Microsoft's .NET project Date: 11 Feb 2002 11:59:52 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Message-ID: References: <2sk5nInklHl1@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1013447078 21129 128.183.220.71 (11 Feb 2002 17:04:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: dscoggin@cne-odin.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Feb 2002 17:04:38 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19872 Date: 2002-02-11T17:04:38+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > Page 11 of the March 2002 MSDN magazine from Microsoft announces > TMT Development Corporation's Pascal compiler for .NET. It says the > compiler "can accept programs in standard Pascal (except for some unsafe > features, such as records with variants, which are allowed if variants > aren't overlapped)". Note that this says that non-overlapped variants are ok. Ada only allows non-overlapped variants. > Is lack of variant records a TMT decision or a requirement of .NET ? > If the latter, it would not bode well for the possibility of a full > Ada compiler targeting that environment. It sounds to me like we are ok. MS is trying to forbid unchecked conversions via C-style unions. -- -- Stephe