Re: Ripple effect

Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

I recall that during the Ada-9X revision process, it was proposed that
primitive operators of a type have this kind of visibility. IIRC, one of
the reasons that this was not accepted was that it would lead to Ripple
effects: adding or removing a unit from a context clause could change
one legal program to a different legal program.

This has nothing to do with the topic. But my understanding is that
the Beaujolais effect was named because Jean Ichbiah offered a bottle
of Beaujolais wine to anyone who could find a certain anomaly in the
language. So are you saying that if someone finds a Ripple effect,
you're going to offer them a bottle of .... ???

Aaahh... I don't even think they sell it any more.

-- Adam

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