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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 8:36:22 AM UTC+2, G.B. wrote:
> On 03.10.17 05:30, reinert wrote:
> > I noticed that my compiler did not like for example:
> > 
> >    t1 : time := clock + 10.0;
> >    t2 : time := t1 + 20.0;
> >    t3 : time range t1 + 10.0 .. t2 + 30.0;
> > 
> > 
> > No room for syntactic sugar here? :-)
> 
> For a start, the compiler has no idea what "20.0" should
> mean with regard to Time.
> 

My compiler (gnat on debian) says "clock + 20" means 20 seconds 
into the future :-)  Assuming I have not misunderstood.

reinert