Re: Ok sorry, it is just a book gives no feedback.

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <86snmvv79k.fsf@acm.org>,
  Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org> wrote:
> I think the language designers did not realize this, at least
> that's what I infer from reactions when I posted this trick
> circa 1995 (IIRC) in comp.lang.ada.

Actually you can find uses of this in the GNAT run-time going
way back, and indeed it is much older than that, since DEC
Ada 83 always supported this capability, and the DEC test suite
contains a number of tests that use this capability to bypass
compiler checking that would defeat the test purpose (related
to the optimization point that LG made).

>
> In the "break everything" area you also have stream based
> code which does all sorts of "unchecked" stuff without having
> "unchecked" in its
> name (well it's obvious, but it breaks the "grep Unchecked"
> rule ;-).

But that's really no different from Sequential_IO ...


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