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,b8b8a54001adc4d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Possible Ada deficiency? References: <1104516913.718856.94090@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1104544963.930877.75170@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1104595073.731663.180100@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <2J1Ed.1997$Ii4.1084@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 03:40:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.186.49.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1105242046 63.186.49.230 (Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:40:46 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:40:46 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7574 Date: 2005-01-09T03:40:46+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > Jeffrey Carter writes: > >>All such types would, of course, be passed by reference. > > Well, that would require changing the current rules, > which require pass-by-copy for a private type if the > full type is elementary. (I don't much like the existing rules > in this area, but I'm not sure the change suggested here would > be an improvement. It would be seriously incompatible, for > one thing.) It's not going to happen in Ada anyway, and if you designed a language to work this way, you wouldn't have such rules in the 1st place. -- Jeff Carter "I blow my nose on you." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 03