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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: subprogram must not be deeper than access type
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:34:25 -0400
Date: 2011-09-26T20:34:25-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc7h4uakmm.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: j5r06d$geh$1@munin.nbi.dk

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> That's how Janus/Ada worked for its early life.

Yes, I know.  That's a perfectly reasonable way to do things.
Too bad Ada doesn't allow it.

>...(Strictly speaking, it was 
> the elaboration of a package body that was the main subprogram, typically 
> that would have just been a call.)

That's just a detail.

>...Eventually, we had to change it to a 
> subprogram in order to run the ACVC (now ACATS). For a long time, there was 
> an option to have a package be the main, but we got rid of it at some point 
> when it was causing some bugs.

GNAT has such an option.

- Bob



      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-25  9:02 subprogram must not be deeper than access type Natasha Kerensikova
2011-09-25 14:04 ` Oliver Kleinke
2011-09-26  9:35   ` Natasha Kerensikova
2011-10-03 23:30   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-03 23:39     ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-04  0:52       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04  1:48         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-09-25 14:23 ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-25 15:03 ` georg bauhaus
2011-09-26  9:45   ` Natasha Kerensikova
2011-09-26 13:43     ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-26 14:20       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-26 16:15         ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-26 19:30           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-27  0:41             ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-27  8:58               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04  4:19               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-09-27  5:50             ` J-P. Rosen
2011-09-27  7:52               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04  4:26                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04  7:58                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04 15:10                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-04 15:34                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04 15:49                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04 16:04                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04 15:44                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04 16:05                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-04 16:47                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04 15:41                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-09-26 18:59       ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-09-27  0:35         ` Robert A Duff
2011-10-04  4:30         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04 18:40           ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-09-26 14:29     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-26 15:31       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-04  4:35       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04  4:13     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-09-25 17:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-09-25 21:53   ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-26  9:25     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-26 23:00     ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-27  0:34       ` Robert A Duff [this message]
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