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,f44e8b91bd1d669d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-20 19:52:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!novia!novia!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!59ce1190!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CE9B65A.BE66B61C@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unusual syntax References: <5ee5b646.0205170201.2582c8ef@posting.google.com> <3CE55D49.70638FEE@acm.org> <5ee5b646.0205182030.45ade229@posting.google.com> <3CE812B1.492EF78E@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 02:52:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.5.152 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1021949539 63.184.5.152 (Mon, 20 May 2002 19:52:19 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 19:52:19 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24446 Date: 2002-05-21T02:52:19+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Jeff Carter "My brain hurts!" Monty Python's Flying Circus