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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Why not using [] instead of () for array?
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Adrian Hoe wrote:
> 
> > c) this has been discussed on CLA, and now that google has
> > all the old records, there is no excuse for anyone not
> > consuling the archives :-)
> 
> I could not find it in Google's archives. Any pointer? :-(

I quickly found a thread titled

computer trivia (was Re: ;;ANY Free ADA Compiler on Windows 95)

from 1998. Included in the thread is a message from Robert Dewar
(whoever he is) giving the right answer that the requirements for DOD-1
[later called Ada, now called Ada 80 (MIL-STD 1815, 1980 Dec 10)]
excluded the use of brackets.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter