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From: Corey Ashford <yeroca@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/28
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Robert Dewar wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Therefore, we would have had to make shift and rotate into
> reserved words, which would have been upward incompatible,
> or else invent new operator symbols, which seemed like too
> much mechanism.
> 
> <<end of quote>>
> 
> This seems quite straightforward and convincing!

Sure, but it still doesn't explain why 'shift_left, etc.
weren't defined, when 'max, 'pred already set a precedence
for making operators named by identifiers.

- Corey