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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f44e8b91bd1d669d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-20 17:12:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newsxfer.visi.net!154.32.99.10.MISMATCH!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unusual syntax Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:20:35 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <5ee5b646.0205170201.2582c8ef@posting.google.com> <3CE55D49.70638FEE@acm.org> <5ee5b646.0205182030.45ade229@posting.google.com> <3CE812B1.492EF78E@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1021904436 13315 136.170.200.133 (20 May 2002 14:20:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 May 2002 14:20:36 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24441 Date: 2002-05-20T14:20:36+00:00 List-Id: IIRC, it was a *draft* standard that was put out for purposes of getting back comments and feedback on the language. It was never accepted as an actual standard. (If memory serves, back in that draft, functions without parameters had to have the "()" much like C/C++... Maybe the C hackers would have liked it better? :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Jeffrey Carter" wrote in message news:3CE812B1.492EF78E@acm.org... > > Ada 80 was MIL-STD-1815, 1980 Dec. Sounds like a (MIL) standard to me. >