!standard 3.08(12) 03-11-19 AC95-00082/01 !class amendment 03-11-19 !status received no action 03-11-19 !status received 03-11-19 !subject Increase uniformity of implementations !appendix From: Editor Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 At the recent ARG meeting, we decided to give up on the action item directed at increasing the uniformity of implementations. Some of the ideas were: Discard_Names External_Tag Array indexed by holey enumeration Storage_IO of tagged types Static elaboration GNAT attributes and pragmas Discard_Names was discussed in AI-00314, but no consensus was reached between the positions, and it was discarded (er, voted No Action). Array indexed by holey enumerations was discussed via e-mail (see AC-00048), and the conclusion was that all compilers currently do the same thing; doing the other thing is very hard in Ada 95, so it would just be work to standardize this without any change or benefit whatsover. At the ARG meeting in Marlboro (meeting 9), many GNAT pragmas and attributes were suggested for standardization and discussed. Others have been proposed since. There seems no need to repeat this work. The feeling was that most of these other issues would probably end up with one of these results, so there is no reason to pursue these further. ****************************************************************