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,b8b8a54001adc4d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Possible Ada deficiency? Date: 11 Jan 2005 16:52:31 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1104516913.718856.94090@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <16jm4u4b7j5bh.5r4falzh3k6a$.dlg@40tude.net> <9ls4dpw9xkri$.1t4b3d8zglukq.dlg@40tude.net> <2106909.XdsyxhICSC@jellix.jlfencey.com> <2079224.1WssEAdSMv@jellix.jlfencey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01-e.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1105480351 30837 69.38.147.31 (11 Jan 2005 21:52:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:52:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7658 Date: 2005-01-11T16:52:31-05:00 List-Id: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler writes: > you'd like to write > > | type Timer_Mode is > | atomic record > | [...] I believe some syntax like that was proposed for Ada 9X, and was later changed to pragmas. I tend to agree with Dmitry: pragmas should not have a strong effect on the high-level semantics (except it's OK for a pragma to *restrict* the semantics). But I have no problem with the fact that pragma Pack affects the result of the 'Size attribute. Nor do I have a problem with pragmas that give optimization hints. - Bob