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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics -
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"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1029204063.16221.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> One problem with the
> Information Systems Annex is that it was to some extent 
> based on COBOL,
> particularly, the picture clause.

To me that is a strength. After all, most financial software is still
written in COBOL, and the picture
clause in particular is one of the successful features
of that language. I think the reason for the lack of
use of Ada in the IS field has nothing whatever to do
with technical features in fact.

> I also believe that a way around the static requirement 
> for Ada decimals should be created.

I have no idea what this means

> I still would like to use the slide-rule formula to
> calculate the exponent. Would a pragma To_Static be 
> possible?

I have no guess as to what this might mean
 
> -----Original Message-----

Robert, please don't quote entire original messages when
it is completely irrelevant to do so. Stop your mailer
or newsreader from doing this!