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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: whats semicolon?
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:20:50 +0000 (UTC)
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote in
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> On 2003-10-24, Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > "Preben Randhol" <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote in
> > message
> >
> >> with Ada.Text_IO;
> >>
> >> package Text_IO renames Ada.Text_IO;
> >
> > Because that's what the RM says is should...
>
> hmm, but then I don't understand why Text_IO is obsolete. Is it because
> it is not under Ada. ?

It's obsolete as you should be using the Ada.* hierarchy in new code, but
they
couldn't remove 'Text_IO' as this would break *huge* amounts of existing
code.