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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message news:<u78hac6o7iku15@corp.supernews.com>...
> The problem rule is 13.9.1(12), which makes the CALL to
> Unchecked_Conversion erroneous if the result is invalid. 
> And this rule is intended (I forget why, Bob?).

Well I am sure the folks at the ARG enjoy having language
lawyer debates, but I think they would better spend their
time going back to the much more useful topic of angels on
a pinhead.

I stick to my guns here. Any compiler that does not allow
the sequence that Richard Riehle showed in his example of
UC followed by 'Valid is broken.