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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Are there any automatic tools to convert ada83 source into ada95?
Date: 1998/12/29
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In article <87vhiv3m7j.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com>,
  Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> The only systematic problem was that our
> exception handlers were standardised with
>
>    ...
> when CONSTRAINT_ERROR =>
>   DO_SOMETHING;
> when NUMERIC_ERROR =>
>   DP_SOMETHING_ELSE;
>    ...
>
> which is no longer legal.


To be clear on this point, this was highly dubious code
in Ada 83, since Ada 83 compilers were allowed to raise
Constraint_Error instead of Numeric_Error in any situation.

So the above code was dubious, implementation-dependent
Ada 83 code in any case.

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