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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Next public release of GNAT(?)
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pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius) wrote in message news:<a21fkb$ui8$1@news.btv.ibm.com>...
> Pardon me if this is an old story, but what happened to 
> GNAT 4.0?
> I presume you have some rationale for skipping to 5.0, 
> could you share?

Yes, an old story indeed, early on we used 4.0 as a designation for
the officially validated version, and
did not want to cause confusion by reusing this designation
for something else.