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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: LLQ: -1 a valid boolean?
Date: 2000/05/24
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In article
<0wOW4.27734$T41.665890@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
  "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
> I certainly stand corrected if there was some earlier
> definition of To_Bool_Ptr that would have enabled me to see
> that "we know that the value is abnormal!"  I had searched
> for To_Bool_Ptr in my newsreader's comp.lang.ada messages,
> and found no prior reference, so I (foolishly) assumed that
> it was a function returning a not abnormal value.


I would guess you are not using a thread following newsreader
:-)

This whole thread is about handling abnormal boolean values!
See the first message in the thread to see the setting of the
stage!


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