From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 21 Oct 92 02:56:29 GMT From: alex@MIMSY.CS.UMD.EDU (Alex Blakemore) Subject: Implementations are allowed (not required) to accept umlauts in commen ts in Ada83 Message-ID: <61313@mimsy.umd.edu> List-Id: weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes: > : Just because the DoD financed the language shouldn't mean that you have > : to use English in your comments! you dont - at least not if you can convince your compiler vendor to accept extended chars in comments. according to AI-339 its perfectly legal Ada83 (though may not be portable) no need to wait for 9X, it really cant be hard for them to implement - they probably just need customers to let them know its important. maybe in 9X all compilers will _have_ to allow this ? -- --------------------------------------------------- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted