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From: mcc@entropy.cs.princeton.edu (Martin C. Carlisle)
Subject: Re: Ada 95 LRM Error?
Date: 1999/01/27
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Organization: US Air Force Academy, Dept of Computer Science
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Date: 1999-01-27T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <36AF6C22.896FC5B8@easystreet.com>,
Al Christians  <achrist@easystreet.com> wrote:
>I'm looking at the Ada 95 Reference Manual, B.4.106.  It shows
>a field: 
>
>	Name  : COBOL.Numeric(1..20);
>
>Later on,  in B.4.109, this gets assigned:
>
>	Name => "Johnson, John           ",
>
>This looks pretty obviously like an error, and I think it probably
>should be Alphanumeric instead of Numeric. However, Numeric is what
>it is, both in my printed version of the LRM and the online LRM
>that comes with the brand-new edition of AdaGide.

Actually, there is a newer version of the LRM that I believe is being
maintined by:

"J. David Bryan" <dbryan@bcpl.net>

but it didn't make GNAT 3.11p.  I don't recall where he kept it, but I have
a copy at:

ftp://ftp.usafa.af.mil/pub/dfcs/carlisle/act/incoming/rm-winhelp.tar.gz

I agree with your assessment, although if you look at the definitions
of Alphanumeric and Numeric, they are the same.  So, it's merely a purist
sort of thing.

--Martin

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