What's New in Ada 2022

This course presents an overview of the new features of the latest Ada 2022 standard.

This document was written by Maxim Reznik and reviewed by Richard Kenner.

Note

The code examples in this course use an 80-column limit, which is a typical limit for Ada code. Note that, on devices with a small screen size, some code examples might be difficult to read.

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Contents:

• Introduction
  • References
• 'Image attribute for any type
  • 'Image attribute for a value
  • 'Image attribute for any type
  • References
• Redefining the 'Image attribute
  • What's the Root_Buffer_Type?
  • Outdated draft implementation
  • References
• User-Defined Literals
  • Turn Ada into JavaScript
  • References
• Advanced Array Aggregates
  • Square brackets
  • Iterated Component Association
  • References
• Container Aggregates
  • References
• Delta Aggregates
  • Delta aggregate for records
  • Delta aggregate for arrays
  • References
• Target Name Symbol (@)
  • Alternatives
  • References
• Enumeration representation
  • Literal positions
  • Representation values
  • Before Ada 2022
  • References
• Big Numbers
  • Big Integers
  • Tiny RSA implementation
  • Big Reals
  • References
• Interfacing C variadic functions
  • References