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: 103376,913ffb3586d7a026 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.vt.edu!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is the best method for transmitting objects/tagged records? Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:05:02 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <47671647-1941-4bf2-ab34-578b4a853095@k16g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1307747102 4318 192.74.137.71 (10 Jun 2011 23:05:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:05:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8jaHLpAP1G/wf2sv/5MSxMgTQRA= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20713 Date: 2011-06-10T19:05:02-04:00 List-Id: Simon Wright writes: > Robert A Duff writes: > >> Simon Wright writes: >> >>> Are Notes normative? >> >> No, but they are true. That is, they follow from the normative rules. > > Ah, I'd forgotten how to speak Requirements. So when Note 1 says "The > partitions comprising a program *may* be executed on differently > configured distributed systems or on a non-distributed system without > requiring recompilation." [my emphasis] there's no requirement on an > implementation to actually do this. That's the other thing about notes -- they're often written sloppily (it's not clear whether the programmer may do that, or the implementation may). I believe the implementation is required to support that. - Bob