Ada Letters--August 2008

Volume XXVIII       Number 2     August 2008



Table of Contents


Newsletter Information

From the Editor's Desk 3

Editorial Policy 4

Key Contacts 6


Chairman's Message - A Special Report by SIGAda Chair - John W. McCormick 9


Annual ACM SIGAda 2008 International Conference in Portland, OR (Oct. 26-30) 14


AdaCore's "Ada Gems" on Ada 2005 31

Gem #10: Limited Types in Ada 2005 - Extended Return Statements

Gem #11: Limited Types in Ada 2005 - Constructor Functions Part 2

Gem #12: Limited Types in Ada 2005 - <> Notation Part 2

Gem #13: Interrupt Handling Idioms (Part 1)

Gem #14: Interrupt Handling Idioms (Part 2)

Gem #15: Timers

Gem #16: Pragma No_Return

Gem #17: Pragma No_Return, Part 2 (functions)

Gem #18: Warnings in GNAT

Gem #19: XML streaming of Ada objects

Gem #20: Using pragma Shared_Passive for data persistence

Gem #21: How to parse an XML text


Ada Europe Conference 2009 103


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Last Update 3 November 2008