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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT messages and the not operator (pitfall alert!)
Date: 1996/10/29
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iJohn Herro saoid

"Fortunately, the tutorial _does_ already list as a pitfall the fact that
-A mod B means -(A mod B)."

I don't know if this is fortunate or not, the likelihood of this information
being usful for anything but answering trick questions is low :-)

As for it being a surprise that a and b or x is not accepted, I don't really
think so. People can always be surprised if they don't know things, but
this is a very familiar rule, and the error msg you get if you violate it
will be clear enough.