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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: obsolete ascii? (for language lawyers)
Date: 1999/07/02
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In article <7lhqs9$9c$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
  Peter Hermann <ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> Thanks to John Herro,  David C. Hoos, Sr.,  Ted Dennison.
> I am afraid I did not explain my question precisely enough.
> With Ada95 we have a quite better type character, but
> I can't see any reason why i should not have the possibility
> to directly write down e.g. the bel-character, the
> ff-character,
> the cr-character, the esc-character etc. etc. as a simple
> identifier,
> the comfort of which will be removed as soon as the
> 'obsolete' package ascii will be removed!

Don't worry, there is no possibility whatsoever of anyone
doing anything so idiotic as to create major incompatibilities
by removing package Ascii. Even if the ISO committee did make
a silly decision like this, vendors would put it back.

The whole business of obsolescent features is in my view
completely silly. The features in annex J are so small and
marginal, that to remove them would not begin to be worth
the headaches caused by legacy code.

You should feel free to use any of these features without
the slightest hesitation in my view.


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