From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Studying and Maintaining GNAT, Is There Any Interest in a New Group?
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:42:32 -0400
Date: 2018-09-01T15:42:32-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccin3pqa1j.fsf@TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pmcgps$850$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk
"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> Note that every one of these renames was illegal in Ada 83. Someone thought
> that it was important to allow Ren1 in Ada 95, and that led to all of these
> bizarre cases.
I think it was mostly accidental. We needed to say that the result of
a function call is an object (as opposed to a value, as in Ada 83),
because it needs to get finalized. This caused renaming of
function calls to become legal, which we viewed as harmless
and sometimes useful.
We didn't take the further step of making all the other cases
you mentioned legal. Perhaps we should have, just for uniformity.
- Bob
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2018-08-25 12:27 Studying and Maintaining GNAT, Is There Any Interest in a New Group? patrick
2018-08-25 13:56 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-25 16:00 ` patrick
2018-08-25 16:16 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 17:42 ` patrick
2018-08-25 19:25 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-25 20:24 ` patrick
2018-08-25 21:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 21:53 ` patrick
2018-08-25 22:05 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-26 19:54 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-26 20:14 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-26 22:52 ` Lucretia
2018-08-27 2:38 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-27 14:46 ` Lucretia
2018-08-27 15:42 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-08-27 21:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-28 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-29 0:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-29 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-29 21:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-30 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-30 23:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-31 8:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-08-31 22:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-09-02 8:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-09-04 22:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-29 3:02 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-29 6:18 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-29 19:00 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-30 5:54 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-30 6:29 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-27 21:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-08-27 9:37 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-27 16:54 ` Bill Findlay
2018-08-27 17:42 ` Shark8
2018-08-31 21:23 ` Robert A Duff
2018-08-31 22:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-09-01 19:42 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2018-09-02 8:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-09-02 10:11 ` AdaMagica
2018-09-02 12:10 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-09-02 14:30 ` AdaMagica
2018-09-04 22:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-09-01 7:41 ` Simon Wright
2018-09-01 17:27 ` Bill Findlay
2018-08-27 17:35 ` Shark8
2018-08-25 21:17 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 23:16 ` Paul Rubin
2018-08-26 8:03 ` Rene
2018-08-26 10:09 ` Simon Wright
2018-08-25 16:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-08-25 17:38 ` patrick
2018-08-25 17:39 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-08-25 17:45 ` patrick
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