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-Thread: a07f3367d7,11414a19b0e4a97a X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:24:32 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <101bf8f3-b823-45ee-9afd-40cbafb4b7a9@t26g2000prt.googlegroups.com> <774c25c4-3270-4ffb-ad19-366a0ab16659@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <4c22669b$0$3623$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1277328256 12355 192.74.137.71 (23 Jun 2010 21:24:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:24:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KLdF1ItE1BfUnusB5kxTUrzLF10= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11905 Date: 2010-06-23T17:24:32-04:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan writes: > I don't think conditional expressions are officially part of Ada yet. > The changes haven't been approved. So if some compiler accepts them, > it's a compiler for some other language that isn't Ada. That's right. They are proposed for Ada 2012. GNAT accepts them under the -gnat2012 switch. AdaCore will probably be adding more Ada 2012 features in the future. If you choose to use Ada 2012 features before the Ada 2012 is standardized, then you are not using Ada, and you run the risk that things might change. - Bob