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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,50137bb64a119cfc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-23 04:23:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "access constant" discriminant Date: 23 Feb 2003 12:22:35 +0000 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org Message-ID: References: <_TO1a.14664$9y2.6601@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3CS1a.55972$2H6.1357@sccrnsc04> <3E4E9248.3E71D984@adaworks.com> <1ec946d1.0302201642.66eb93e5@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1046003028 28381 62.49.19.209 (23 Feb 2003 12:23:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:23:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34468 Date: 2003-02-23T12:22:35+00:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" writes: > Indeed, I'm not aware of any real Ada program, serious or otherwise, > that actually uses access discriminants. I know that they were buggy > in Janus/Ada until very recently, and we never received any bug > reports on them. So, as a practical matter, these are a very > marginal feature of Ada with very limited uses. Very useful for records with task/protected type components, of course! (and I think my current project is fairly serious ..)