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Subject: Re: Lack of formal syntax undermines Ada
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* John McCabe:

> Bugger - where did I get that idea from then (have to admit, it's been
> a while since I paid a lot of attention to Ada!)

There's the saying that in Ada, functions can have side effects all over
the place, but you can't express that in the function's declaration.