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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING,SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,20df1d18f8f75d4c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-10 16:28:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!ppp-1-16.cvx4.telinco.NET!not-for-mail From: "Nick Roberts" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Probl�me avec des get(fichier, integer) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:46:56 -0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-1-16.cvx4.telinco.net (212.1.148.16) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1010708930 29027205 212.1.148.16 (16 [25716]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18751 Date: 2002-01-10T23:46:56+00:00 List-Id: "Robert A Duff" wrote in message news:wccd70ii6du.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com... > "Nick Roberts" writes: > > > In a dark corner of the reference manual - RM95 J.2 (3) - you will see that > > the '#' hashes in a based numeric literal are permitted to be replaced by > > ':' colons. (This is an obsolescent feature, and so may be removed by a > > future revision.) > > I believe obsolescent features will never be removed. I suppose the pressures will tend to be in favour of retention, for most (or all) obsolescent features, for a while yet. Perhaps come Ada 2050 ;-) Or will computers be programming us by then? :-) * -- Best wishes, Nick Roberts * suggesting the horrible notion of a "blue scream of death" [shudder]