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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Help needed in port to GNAT95 from verdix
Date: 1998/05/15
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In article <dewar.895190155@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> The trouble is that most people think of the size of an object as being
> determined by the size of the type, but that is generally not true in 
> Ada 95 (though it was typically true in the default case in Ada 83).

I have not run into this problem, but I might.

It would be nice to be able to buy a book with this sort of thing
highlighted; perhaps titled "Non-Obvious Ada".

Of course there is not much motivation for someone to _write_ such
a book if sales would be limited to no more than the readership of
this newsgroup.

Larry Kilgallen