From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Auto-allocation of Indefinite Objects
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:45:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rhnqip$bga$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rhn18k$sf6$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk
On 21/08/2020 01:33, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:mkmtjflufgmatkk3hp25nvk2hoogun1fis@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:49:44 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
>> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> declaimed the following:
>>
>>>
>>> But records and arrays are needed as building blocks of containers. How
>>> would you get rid of them?
>>
>> And likely needed for any embedded or low-level work where they are
>> mapped to things like (GP) I/O ports or such...
>
> Yes, a fixed vector container would be needed for interfacing (probably
> wouldn't use it for anything else). But there's no reason that can't be
> provided as a container, so long as representation guarentees (esp.
> Component_Size) are included. Remember that containers (in Ada 202x) have
> indexing, aggregates, and all of the useful basic operations. The stuff
> that's missing is the same stuff that adds a vast amount of complexity to
> Ada (and possibilities for bugs) - hardly anyone would miss it.
Really? I would miss array conversions, slices, equivalence of same
length index ranges, constrained array subtypes etc.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2020-04-03 22:48 Proposal: Auto-allocation of Indefinite Objects Stephen Davies
2020-04-03 23:45 ` Stephen Leake
2020-04-04 10:54 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-04-04 20:55 ` Stephen Davies
2020-04-04 8:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-07-27 7:47 ` Yannick Moy
2020-07-27 9:21 ` J-P. Rosen
2020-07-27 9:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-07-27 17:48 ` Brian Drummond
2020-07-27 20:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-07-28 14:28 ` Brian Drummond
2020-07-28 14:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-07-29 15:33 ` Brian Drummond
2020-07-29 16:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-07-30 13:37 ` Stephen Davies
2020-07-30 14:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-07-30 17:04 ` Brian Drummond
2020-07-30 18:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-10 0:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-10 8:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-20 0:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-20 17:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-20 20:19 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-08-20 23:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-21 6:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2020-08-23 4:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-23 12:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-20 23:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-21 6:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-23 4:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-23 12:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-10 0:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-10 8:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-20 0:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-20 17:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-20 23:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-21 7:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-23 5:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-08-23 12:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-07-27 20:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-07-31 9:25 ` Stephen Davies
2020-07-31 10:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-01 11:22 ` Stephen Davies
2020-08-01 12:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-01 20:35 ` Stephen Davies
2020-08-01 20:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-09-03 4:30 ` linda white
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