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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: disjoint ranges ?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 03:17:06 GMT
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In article <39E75AE3.90F858CE@ix.netcom.com>,
  Lao Xiao Hai <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> The problem of disjoint ranges came up for me many years ago
> on a different project.   I
> even suggested this as a capability for Ada 9X, but my
> suggestion either fell through the cracks or I submitted it
> incorrectly.

Nope! (speaking as one of the four authors of the Ada 9X
requirements document), it did not fall through the cracks,
it simply did not make it past the first cut where we rejected
complex features that seemed to clearly have insufficient value
from an expressive point of view. This particular one was
closer than some, but still far from the bar :-)


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