From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f44e8b91bd1d669d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-17 03:01:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unusual syntax Date: 17 May 2002 03:01:18 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205170201.2582c8ef@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021629678 16537 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2002 10:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 May 2002 10:01:18 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24260 Date: 2002-05-17T10:01:18+00:00 List-Id: "Steve Caddy" wrote in message news: when A ! B ! D => do_something; ; > > I was even more amazed when the first version compiled and functioned in > the same way as the second version. No doubt you will get a huge pile of answers telling you that the only problem here is your unwarranted amazement :-) But here is a constructive suggestion. Get an online version of the RM. When you find something that surprises you, it is often trivial to track it down with a search, as in this case, you could just search for ! and immediately find the reference to this language features (which has been around in the standard for nearly 20 years now!)