From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Subject: Re: From our "For what it's worth department"
Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 20:28:29 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Tue Jul 15 20:28:29 1986
Message-ID: <2882@sdcrdcf.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8607090053.AA07573@grebyn.COM
In article <8607090053.AA07573@grebyn.COM> Karl A. Nyberg writes:
>The example that Peter Pearson sent about allowing entry names to be
>"withed" as a formal procedure in a generic package compiles and executes
>with Verdix Ada on the Vax as well (I have VADS 5.1b, and Ultrix-32m 1.1).
>
>Looks like we have two votes for its legality.
In this case it doesn't matter how you vote--the manual rather autocratically
has decreed it to be legal in section 12.3.6(1). No democracy here.
Those of us who read manuals for a living wish to express our gratitude to
those of you who don't.
Larry Wall, President Gurus Local #1273.
sdcrdcf!lwall
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1986-07-09 0:53 From our "For what it's worth department" Karl A. Nyberg
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