Re: Direct Quote from the RM

[Markus E L <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

'anon AT anon DOT org (anon)' wrote:

> Paragraph of 10 from Design Goal.
>
>   10   No language can avoid the problem of efficiency.  Languages that 
>         require over-elaborate compilers, or that lead to the inefficient use 
>         of storage or execution time, force these inefficiencies on all 
>         machines and on all programs.  Every construct of the language was 
>         examined in the light of present implementation techniques.  Any 
>         proposed construct whose implementation was unclear or that 
>         required excessive machine resources was rejected.
>
> "Any proposed construct whose implementation was unclear or that required 
> excessive machine resources was rejected." That statement suggest that 
> "gnatmake" in using requires 5 complete programs to be loaded at one time 
> just to compile a single routine or package when 3 to 3 will do should be 
> rejected!

Since when is gnatmake a "construct of the language"? Furthermore the
text describes the (past) design process of Ada language and does (as
I understand it) not impose requirements on the compiler/tool
implementation. That would be the difference between "was rejected"
and "shall rejected" AFAI understand.

- M