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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry
Date: 1996/11/13
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Gosh, to me it looks like

>  for i in 1 .. 10 do

>should be legal in Pascal, but guess what, it isn't.
>What a horrible language

This one is very much a propos, because

    for i in [1 .. 10] do

_is_ legal in ISO Pascal Extended (note the brackets).
(Trap for Ada programmers trying Pascal Extended:  'for X in Set' is
not defined to enumerate the Set elements in any particular order.)

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