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From: falis@ma.aonix.com (Ed Falis)
Subject: Re: Self-referential types
Date: 1999/10/18
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 01:23:27 GMT, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <38077EB3.E6911567@mitre.org>,
>   "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> wrote:
> > Brian Rogoff wrote:
> >
> >    AFIAK, it is almost always poor engineering to declare
> procedures
> > within other procedures in Ada. The chief exception is
> recursive descent
> > parsers.
> 
> What an *amazing* statement. I am completely flabbergasted!

Just so it's clear (which it's not from the quoting above),  I'm pretty
sure it was Eachus, not Rogoff, who made the comment this 
starts with.

- Ed