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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada safety road Was: Which is right ...
Date: 1999/06/08
Date: 1999-06-08T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7jho5j$649$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yecwvxfrb96.fsf@king.cts.com

In article <yecwvxfrb96.fsf@king.cts.com>,
  Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> wrote:
> This brings up a pet peeve of mine: the word "erroneous" was a
> poor choice of terminology.  It's an existing English word
> with a well-defined meaning.  When I use the word in an Ada
> context, I very often have to explain the Ada-specific
> meaning.

The RM is *full* of ordinary english words used in a formal
manner. You have to make clear that you are speaking this
formal terminology when you do, and you should speak it only
to the initiated :-)

There are many cases where this can cause trouble, for example
how many people think a generic package is a package (it is
NOT, and this is critical in understanding the RM).


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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-06-08  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-05-30  0:00 Which is right here - GNAT or OA ? Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-30  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-31  0:00   ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-31  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-01  0:00   ` dennison
1999-05-30  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-31  0:00   ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-31  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05  0:00       ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-05  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
1999-06-05  0:00         ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-05  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07  0:00             ` Ada safety road Was: Which is right Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-06  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-06-07  0:00                 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-07  0:00                   ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-08  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-08  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-08  0:00                       ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-09  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09  0:00                           ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-09  0:00                             ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09  0:00                         ` dennison
1999-06-09  0:00                           ` Entamology of "Nasal Demons" dennison
1999-06-09  0:00                       ` Ada safety road Was: Which is right dennison
1999-06-08  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-06-07  0:00                     ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-08  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-08  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-14  0:00                   ` Ada safety road Franco Mazzanti
1999-06-15  0:00                     ` Franco Mazzanti
1999-06-16  0:00                       ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-06  0:00               ` Ada safety road Was: Which is right Robert Dewar
1999-06-07  0:00                 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-06-07  0:00                   ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-08  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-10  0:00               ` Peter Amey
1999-06-10  0:00                 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-11  0:00                   ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-12  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12  0:00                       ` JP Thornley
1999-06-13  0:00                         ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-16  0:00                         ` William Dale
1999-06-19  0:00                           ` JP Thornley
1999-06-21  0:00                           ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-13  0:00                       ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-12  0:00                         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-13  0:00                           ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-13  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-13  0:00                           ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-13  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-13  0:00                           ` swhalen
1999-06-13  0:00                           ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-01  0:00   ` Which is right here - GNAT or OA ? Tucker Taft
1999-05-31  0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-01  0:00   ` dennison
1999-06-03  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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