Subprogram Renaming

["James A. Squire" <m193884@CSEHP3.MDC.COM>]

According to section 6.2 of the Ada95 Rationale, "In Ada95, we allow a
subprogram body to be provided by renaming another subprogram.  This is
a great convenience in those many cases in Ada83 where the programmer
was forced to provide a body which simply called some other existing
subprogram."

In the Ada95 LRM, section 8.5 has:

renaming_declaration ::=
   object_renaming_declaration
  |exception_renaming_declaration
  |package_renaming_declaration
  |subprogram_renaming_declaration
  |generic_renaming_declaration

In the Ada83 LRM, the only thing not included in this syntax diagram was
the "generic_renaming_declaration", which is not what 6.2 of the
Rationale is talking about.

So I am totally at a loss to see how Ada95 added anything to the case
cited in 6.2 of the Rationale to allow you to do something you weren't
able to do in Ada83.

Can someone please help me understand this terribly confusing section of
the Rationale?

Thank you.
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