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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Assertions
Date: 1999/05/11
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In article <3736F549.E3DDCDEB@pwfl.com>,
  diespammer@pwfl.com wrote:
>but I think the "pragma Assert" got enough attention that other
> compiler vendors have implemented it as well, so it is
> becoming a common
> - if not standard - feature of the language. I'd expect to see
> it in some future revision of the ARM.

I would not! I do not see that the fundamental problems that
caused Assert not to make it into the Ada 95 RM have been
solved. For a discussion of these problems, consult the archives
(we have had that thread at least once, probably more than once
in recent memory).


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