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From: Robert Spooner <rls19@psu.edu>
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Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> ...
> No Gnat bug here!
> 

Thanks. I can see that now. I'm sure glad the compiler didn't just 
choose what it thought I meant and just do that without telling me. 
Using named notation resolves the ambiguity. (dumb computer doesn't know 
what I mean :)

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                             Robert L. Spooner
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