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,ae9506fd4dcf7090 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-22 11:52:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DB59E64.5030703@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Concatenation and Characters References: <44hp9.807$_u6.205@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3DA5AE5F.3030902@attbi.com> <3DB03EF1.EE771923@mmm.com> <3DB43EB0.AAF4B38C@mmm.com> <3DB44B9C.80007@worldnet.att.net> <3DB466CB.7CE0BC59@mmm.com> <3DB4AD20.4070109@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:51:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.8.189 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1035312707 63.184.8.189 (Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:51:47 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:51:47 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30042 Date: 2002-10-22T18:51:47+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > Jeffrey Carter writes: > >>...The revision process for the language has backwards >>compatibility as a major goal, so don't expect this to change. "This" referred to the lack of a requirement to detect a reference to an uninitialized variable. > But it *did* change. In Ada 83, the above program was erroneous (i.e., > had unpredictable behavior), whereas in Ada 95, it has a bounded error. > It must print "A is greater than B" or "B is greater than A" or raise an > exception. The definition of what happens changed. The lack of a requirement to detect references to uninitialized variables didn't change. -- Jeff Carter "This school was here before you came, and it'll be here before you go." Horse Feathers