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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable?
Date: 1999/03/01
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dewar@gnat.com wrote in message <7bei3a$pjk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
[...]
|It's not so simple. Conformance to the standard is a
|desirable property, but not the only desirable property,
|and a compiler vendor who considers conformance to be
|of primary importance over all other considerations may
|well produce a very correct compiler that is not however
|usable for any number of reasons (just remember that Ada/Ed
|was fully conformant :-)
[...]

All of which granted.  I remember back to the "good old" bad old days, when
many Ada (83!) compilers -- even before the official concession to partial
implementations -- would omit whole features.  "Fixed point? Oh, yeah, well,
we're getting round to fixed point, mate. Next release, maybe."  Aaaargh.

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Nick Roberts
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