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From: ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net (Jean D. Ichbiah)
Subject: Re: Why no exception hierarchy ?
Date: 1995/04/05
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Date: 1995-04-05T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <D6Ky3v.DGn@world.std.com> bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:
>From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
>Subject: Re: Why no exception hierarchy ?
>Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 20:55:07 GMT

>In article <ichbiah.271.2F82D56D@jdi.tiac.net>,
>Jean D. Ichbiah <ichbiah@jdi.tiac.net> wrote:
>>Since when have you become an adept of the Soviet practice of
>>rewriting history? There is no such thing as Ada 83: it is called
>>Ada. Moreover, look at the cover of the new standard and as 
>>far as I can read it refers to a language called Ada 95!

>Jean,

>The title of the ISO standard is "Information Technology -- Programming
>languages -- Ada".  No "95" there.  A different cover was added to the
>version that was sent out by the Ada 9X office.

This  is by a factor of 100 the document that  will be available to the 
public.

>The Foreword says, "This second edition cancels and replaces the first
>edition (ISO 8652:1987), of which it constitutes a technical revision."

This is the Soviet practice of thinking you can "cancel history"


Jean D. Ichbiah

P.S. How about writing "This new edition cancels the previous version 
of Robert  Duff of which it constitutes a technical revision". :-)