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From: Rex Reges <73653.1634@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: Form feed comment for pragma Page
Date: 1996/06/12
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Date: 1996-06-12T00:00:00+00:00
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It appears to me now that the problem
with a form-feed-character-in-a-comment
evolved over time to a non-problem and 
I observed the problem before compiler 
vendors had caught up.  

Although this may seem a minor point, I
would like to make some additional comments.

The current Ada 95 appears to have a different problem that I
have run into: null characters.  

In LRM 2.1 the allowed characters for
comments are intentionally not defined
causing trouble from one machine to another.
The statement is:

"The only characters allowed outside 
of comments are..."

This may allow null characters and other
troublesome control characters.

One should not put a null character in a 
comment since the Unix debuggers tend to 

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