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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Ada -vs- GNAT
Date: 9 Jun 2002 11:05:02 -0700
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"SteveD" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<x1tM8.144976$ux5.185878@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>...
> I agree with this for most of the gnat specific 
> attributes.  But find the "img" attribute hard to
> justify.  Usually being terse is not a goal in Ada.

One comment on the terseness issue here is that when it
comes to attribute names, the design of the language
favors short abbreviations (pos, val, max, min etc)