From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ae4660d46953150 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-09-12 16:05:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!assen.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Enhancement needed (was strange record size ?) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:03:16 GMT Message-ID: <39beb5c7.17576629@news.demon.co.uk> References: <0$9CsHAKbiv5Ewg1@ntlworld.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: assen.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: assen.demon.co.uk:158.152.218.101 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 968799890 nnrp-07:1806 NO-IDENT assen.demon.co.uk:158.152.218.101 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:618 Date: 2000-09-12T23:03:16+00:00 List-Id: Michael Pickett wrote: <..snip..> >...Robert may have misunderstood my intentions... Given my experience of Robert's interpretations, I think that your hypothesis is likely to be entirely correct! >* Implementation Advice is a useful mechanism for persuading an >implementor to adopt (or avoid) a particular approach where it would be >inappropriate to introduce a normative clause. (Unfortunately, the >Standard does not provide any background on what qualifies a clause to >be a recommendation rather than a requirement.) I may be missing the point here, but I believe IA are guidelines as to the way a compiler would be expected to do things, but none of these are requirements. The RM however does identify Implementation Requirements sections. Best Regards John McCabe