Re: An observation of Ada (may offend)

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Norm writes:

this [record representation clauses being optional] is no longer the case

that's misleading, record representation clauses were always required in
Ada 83. It is true that for a long time the ACVC suite did not enforce
this, but the standard required them. It permitted their omission only
for cases where there was no simple mapping to the macihine, since this
was never true for simple record rep clauses, this did not apply, and
they were 100% required.

In a sense, Ada 95 relaxes this, since the core does not require that
they be implemented.