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Subject: Re: GOTO considered necessary (reworked)
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> <<Similar sob-story: Rep-specs written to make data structures portable
> were rejected because "rep-specs are implementation-dependent.">>
> 
> rep specs cannot in general make code more portable. They can make data
> structures better specified for interchange with the outside world,

That's the point.  Someone who had read that "rep specs cannot ... 
make code more portable" wanted to reject rep clauses that made them
"better specified for interchange with the outside" - including
data to be exchanged with a different CPU and a different HOL!

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