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Subject: Re: Renaissance-Ada, a toolset for legacy Ada software, made open source
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:31:08 +0000
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Jesper Quorning <jesper.quorning@gmail.com> writes:

> fredag den 28. januar 2022 kl. 03.23.32 UTC+1 skrev Andreas ZEURCHER:
>> On Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 6:55:11 AM UTC-6, Luke A. Guest wrote: 
>> > What does "for legacy Ada software" mean?
>> I would suspect that “for legacy Ada software” might be a
>> euphemistic way of saying: doesn't support modern Ada after either
>> Ada83 or Ada95.
>
> The video [1] from the README tells an up-to-date Ada success story.
>  
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHrd-9wgALM

Interesting!

I found myself using a case statement rather than an if so as to avoid a
'use type': U is an Interfaces.Unsigned_16,

   case U is
      when 1 => do one thing;
      when others => do something else;
   end case;

which you can see being problematic if the tooling converts this to an
if statement. Of course, without the 'use type' it won't compile.