Re: Language Design Mistakes (was "not intended...")

["W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <see.signature@this.message>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> John Herro says
> <<It might be surprising, but that was allowed in the 1980 Ada
> standard!  (It was, of course, removed in Ada 83).>>
> 
> It is indeed surprising given that there was no such thing as "the
> 1980 Ada standard". The first standard for Ada was in April of 1993.
> ....

Before we start a semantic war about the definition of "standard"
let me point out that I have a copy of MIL-STD-1815A (1983) where 
the STD (rightly or wrongly) means "standard"  In fact, before 
I read the quote above, I was planning to post the following query 
(for unrelated reasons):

  Anyone know of an online source for MIL-STD-1815, or whether
  (and where) the "assert" statement can be found in a
  (semi-)official pre-1983 Ada publication (online OR printed)?

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