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"Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
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<[..snip..]
> The fact that there is very little demand for assertions might be said
> of other seldom used and little understood features already in the
language.

Good point.

>
> I would like to see us engage in dialogue about this idea in terms of
> its intrinsic merits and and potential for harm rather than depend on the
> immediate demand of the day-to-day current Ada practitioner.