Re: Lack of formal syntax undermines Ada

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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> I was surprised to see Annex P marked as "informative".
> I took this as shorthand for a statement of the form:
> "This Annex is a collection of the syntax rules presented in other
> sections of the document. Because of the dangers of a transcription
> error, it is informative only. The syntax rules as they appear in
> the other sections are normative"

That is exactly correct. Although there isn't much chance of a transcription
error: it (and Annexes K and L for that matter) are automatically generated
from the rest of the standard when it is formatted. (A number of other
annexes are also constructed this way, but partially from text that doesn't
actually appear in the Standard, so there is more chance of an error in
those. But I believe that K, L, and P are constructed only from text that
actually appears in the Standard, so the chances of error are low.)

                          Randy.