Re: Unusual syntax

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> IIRC, it was a *draft* standard that was put out for purposes of getting
> back comments and feedback on the language. It was never accepted as an
> actual standard. (If memory serves, back in that draft, functions without
> parameters had to have the "()" much like C/C++... Maybe the C hackers would
> have liked it better? :-)

That's right, subprogram calls with no parameters had to have an empty
pair of parentheses after them in Ada 80.

I'm no expert, but I think 1815 was a standard. That's why the revision
is called 1815A, indicating it's a revision of the standard called 1815.
If we'd stuck with the MIL-STD thing, Ada 95 would have been 1815B. If
Ada 83 had been the first standard, it would simply have been 1815, and
Ada 80 would have been a draft version of 1815.

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