Re: New release of AdaControl (1.11r4)

["Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

On 2 juil, 14:23, Peter Hermann <s...@spam.de> wrote:
> doubt.
>
> why not use ordinary enumeration types, maybe indirectly, for that purpose?

Beceause an enumeration cannot be extended after it is declared

I know there was a proposal for Ada 2005, to allow enumerated type to
be extendable, but this was rejected

Sometime enumerations are just itended to defines a set of identifier,
which are to be interpreted by some applications. There is then no
need for any ordering relation (this aspect of enumeration is not
meaningful, thus not required) and these identifiers are better
defined in the child packages which indeed require these identifiers
to be inroducted. When it is, it is cleaner to not overload one
package specification with what is to belong to child packages with
apply or extend the root package. This make the specification clearer
to understand and makes relation between package and segmentation of
the domain, clearer as well.

But my notice about it was just a personal side note