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: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:11:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.18.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1095981066 138.217.18.112 (Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:11:06 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:11:06 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4059 Date: 2004-09-23T23:11:06+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Randy Brukardt" wrote: > Why were all of the files needed? For a program of this size, I would have > nested the specifications in the body. (One possible reason was the old > restriction on nesting of tagged type extensions. Ada 2005 has eliminated > this restriction, so that particular issue will go away soon.) > > Randy. Talking about removing restrictions - will Ada 2005 allow for downward closures (I read that the one reason for it's exclusion was a compiler which is no longer with us). Dale -- dstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au