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On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 2:06:01 AM UTC-5, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 6/25/2012 9:48 PM, Jerry wrote:
> 
> >
> > Which brings me to one of my least favorite Ada features, the use of
> > () instead of [] for array indices.
> 
> fyi,
> I found the allowed characters in Ada in the original
> steelman document, dated June 1978
> 
> http://archive.adaic.com/docs/reports/steelman/steelman.htm#2
> 
> "Every source program shall also have a representation that
> uses only the following 55 character subset of the ASCII graphics:
> 
>      %&'()*+,-./:;<=>?
>     0123456789
>     ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_
> 
> "
> 
> You see that [] were not even in the allowed character set.
> 
> --Nasser

I also notice there's no double-quote.