From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a45c7f0a721c2c35 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Subject: Re: Problems with visibility of implicit function... Date: 1996/06/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 161038538 references: <4q67nn$sp5@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4q6tgq$n25@uuneo.neosoft.com> organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4q6tgq$n25@uuneo.neosoft.com>, wrote: >>Dale Stanbrough (dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote: >> >[snip] >> >> BTW WRT Annotated LRM, 8.5.4(8.g), what do alligators have to >> do with squirrels? ?:-) They're both animals. This is all just a bit of silliness on my part. One gets tired of writing all that serious and arcane stuff that goes into an International Standard. And producing a good index is long and tedious work. The user of an index just looks things up, but the author has to *read* it, from start to finish, numerous times. During the design of Ada 9X, one of the reviewers (I think it was Dave Emery) sent in a comment saying that if alligators are included in the index, then in fairness to squirrels, they should be included, too (since the AARM does, in fact, use the word "squirrel"). So I obeyed this suggestion. >For that matter, you've missed the ecology index entries... Go look up >"unpolluted" :) Right. That one should be self-explanatory, and is equally silly. It was also triggered by a comment from a reviewer (I think it was Norman Cohen, master of puns). In case anybody wants to know what on earth I'm babbling about, just look up the following terms in the Index of the RM: constructor heap management unpolluted and in the index of the AARM: squirrel away - Bob