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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 11:46:54 -0700
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Gautier Write-only wrote:

> Frank:
>
> > What about the possibility of commenting several lines like /* ...... */?
>
> Hey cool! I would add the possibility of nesting several of
> such comments, ... [ snipped several other ideas ] ...

Right.  Perhaps we could even return to the good old days
of Fortran and COBOL and permit line numbers in some
specified locations at the end of each line.   :-)

Richard Riehle