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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Limited_Controlled, orthogonality and related issues
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:36:57 -0500
Date: 2007-01-19T11:36:57-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccfya7m0ra.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1xayd4jh8w33a.1meq1440lgi4v.dlg@40tude.net

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:29:35 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> Make all types tagged.  For efficiency, this would require a different
>> run-time model than what Ada compilers currently do -- you don't want
>> to store a tag field with every Boolean variable!  To enable the
>> non-stored-tag model, eliminate the rule that all tagged parameter
>> are aliased (and allow "aliased" keyword).
>> 
>> None of the above are likely to happen, I suspect.
>
> Even if we, all the Ada community, really wanted it? 

The Ada community wants compatibility with older versions of the
language.  What I described above is not compatible.

- Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-19 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-18  9:24 Limited_Controlled, orthogonality and related issues Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-18 12:00 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-01-18 12:33   ` AW: " Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-01-18 16:25   ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-18 17:02 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-01-18 17:16   ` Adam Beneschan
2007-01-19  1:02     ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-19  7:38       ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-19  9:05     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-19 17:04       ` Adam Beneschan
2007-01-19  1:01   ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-19  9:57   ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-18 19:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-19  7:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-19 16:46   ` Adam Beneschan
2007-01-19 15:29 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-19 16:31   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-19 16:36     ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2007-01-19 18:26       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-19 20:17         ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-20 10:14           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-20 14:44             ` Robert A Duff
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