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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> I'm trying to look for a radical simplification... Otherwise, we'll
> have no choice but to delay Ada 2020 or defer it. 

If you mean "defer it" means ship Ada 2020 on schedule but postpone this
particular feature til post-Ada-2020, that might be reasonable, since
it's important to get it right in the long run.  Is it possible to do
what C++ does and release an experimental feature that might be changed
incompatibly in a future version?