(j3.2006) Ada committee (WG9) position on new requests

[Clune, Thomas L. GSFC-6101]

Van,

This is actually quite similar to what was agreed in Garching last week.   Both committees are requesting use cases, albeit with different wording.

The notable difference is that WG5 does not want ?a specific enhancement? in the first phase, while WG9 ?welcomes? them.    WG5 has good reasons for wanting to defer such details, that were articulated in our Garching session.  My impression is that we had a very strong consensus on the matter.


  *   Tom


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Date: Friday, July 7, 2017 at 3:28 PM
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Subject: (j3.2006) Ada committee (WG9) position on new requests

WG 9 welcomes suggestions for language enhancements at any time. These
should be sent to ada-comment at ada-auth.org.<mailto:ada-comment at ada-auth.org.> For enhancement requests (as
opposed to identification of errors in the Ada 2012 Standard), it is very
important to describe the programming problem and why the Ada 2012 solution
is complex, expensive, or impossible. A detailed description of a specific
enhancement is welcome but not necessarily required. The goal of the ARG is
to solve as many programming problems as possible with new/enhanced Ada
features that fit into the existing Ada framework. Thus the ARG will be
looking at the language as a whole, which may suggest alternative solutions
to the problem.

A similar posture doesn't seem unreasonable for Fortran.


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