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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Type casting question
Date: 1999/12/22
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In article <83p0mc$g7g$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  reason67@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <83ookh$aek$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > By convention on this newsgroup, we assume Ada means Ada, i.e.
> > Ada 95. If people are stuck using an obsolete version of the

> I think it is risky to assume that new people know the conventions
> here. Personally, I have been reading and posting here for a couple
> months and I did not know that there was such a convention until you
> were kind enough to point it out to me.

Ahh. So what you are saying is that this needs to be in the FAQ which we
are currently putting together. Thanks for pointing that out.

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