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From: johnherro@aol.com (John Herro)
Subject: Re: Language Design Mistakes (was "not intended...")
Date: 1997/05/15
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I wrote:
>> It might be surprising, but that was allowed in the 1980 Ada
>> standard!  (It was, of course, removed in Ada 83).
Robert Dewar wrote:
> ... there was no such thing as "the 1980 Ada standard"...
> There were ... preliminary drafts ... and it is perhaps to
> one of these that John refers.

I was referring to ANSI/MIL-STD-1815, without the "A."

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