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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
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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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