From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.125.4 with SMTP id mm4mr11910960obb.49.1403859185928; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 01:53:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.49.227 with SMTP id q90mr476qga.22.1403859185859; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 01:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!news.glorb.com!hn18no14471753igb.0!news-out.google.com!a8ni0qaq.1!nntp.google.com!i13no1606584qae.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 01:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=158.110.27.77; posting-account=9fwclgkAAAD6oQ5usUYhee1l39geVY99 NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.110.27.77 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <14459410-f5a4-433d-b3ea-5cac31d0d86c@googlegroups.com> Subject: A curiosity about the RM From: mockturtle Injection-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:53:05 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20627 Date: 2014-06-27T01:53:05-07:00 List-Id: Dear all, I just payed attention to the fact that some paragraphs in our beloved RM are labeled with a single number, while others are labeled with something like "number1/number2" (see, for example, http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-1-1-2.html) I am just curious about the difference. I could do a wild guess by saying that "number2" is a kind of "version counter", so that when I say "Paragraph 1/3 of 1.1.2" I always refer to the same text, independently on the document version. How far did I shoot? Riccardo