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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,335f67c75a2a5d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-31 14:19:40 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!europa.netcrusader.net!152.163.239.129!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.execpc.com!newspeer.sol.net!homer.alpha.net!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3A4C2098.5137C8D0@home.com> Subject: Re: External_Tag: Why? was Re: Ada0x Enhancement? Was: Tags.Internal_Tag(String'Input(Stream)) ?? X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:17:30 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.46.62.124 X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 978300980 156.46.62.124 (Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:16:20 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:16:20 CST Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3501 Date: 2000-12-31T16:17:30-06:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote in message ... >Of what use is "for T'External_Tag use "abc;" since it doesn't actually >specify what's written or read with S'Class'Input? I think that the intent was that it can be used to synchronize tags between multiple programs compiled with a single compiler. (There is no guarentee that they are the same otherwise...) Randy.