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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:06:15 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh.plus-bug.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Rob Solomon wrote:
>> I am working my way thru Ada As A Second Language by Norman Cohen (c)
>> 1996
>>
>> This confuses me.
>>
>> It is a simple sorting routine that swaps pointers rather than the
>> data.  Note that the variables are more like Modula-2 syntax as I am
>> very comfortable with that.  And it is easier to type.
> 
> Has something gone wrong when (I'm guessing here) the
> program was rewritten for Ada?  The compiler shows some
> errors. 

I'll take this one back after learning that the program
is a modified copy from section 8.5.3 of Cohen's book.

Anyway, to run a compiler can be helpful :-)