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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Representation clauses and streams
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In article <386F900C.235952C2@averstar.com>,
  Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
> Apparently GNAT has not yet been revised to
> follow the updated advice, which is quite reasonable given
> that the associated AI, AI-195, is still a work-item -- it
> is not yet officially "approved."  For the full AI, see:

And indeed we will have to consider carefully how to deal with
this, since changing to meet the new advice is a non-upwards
compatible change which is sure to cause chaos for many of our
users. So we have not decided what to do about this yet.

Apparently some other compilers failed to follow the RM advice
in the first place, which is what is giving rise to the push
to revise the language here. A tricky situation ....



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