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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Restrictions on compilers for Microsoft's .NET project
Date: 11 Feb 2002 11:25:10 -0600
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In article <uzo2geyyf.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> 
>> Page 11 of the March 2002 MSDN magazine from Microsoft announces
>> TMT Development Corporation's Pascal compiler for .NET.  It says the
>> compiler "can accept programs in standard Pascal (except for some unsafe
>> features, such as records with variants, which are allowed if variants
>> aren't overlapped)".
> 
> Note that this says that non-overlapped variants are ok. Ada only
> allows non-overlapped variants.

Is this a change for Ada95 ?

I believe I recall using overlapped variants in VAX/DEC/Compaq Ada (83).

Or do I have a different understanding of the word "overlapped" ?