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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Self-referential types
Date: 1999/10/19
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In article <1103_940211488@DZOG-CHEN>,
  falis@ma.aonix.com (Ed Falis) wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 01:23:27 GMT, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> > In article <38077EB3.E6911567@mitre.org>,
> >   "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> wrote:
> > > Brian Rogoff wrote:
> > >
> > >    AFIAK, it is almost always poor engineering to declare
> > procedures
> > > within other procedures in Ada. The chief exception is
> > recursive descent
> > > parsers.
> >
> > What an *amazing* statement. I am completely flabbergasted!
>
> Just so it's clear (which it's not from the quoting above),
I'm pretty
> sure it was Eachus, not Rogoff, who made the comment this
> starts with.
>
> - Ed
>

Yes, I understood it to be a comment from Eachus, and that's
why I was flabbergasted :-) If it had been from
some one else, I would
not have been so suprised :-) :-)

Sorry for unclear quoting


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