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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: S'Write and How To Count Bytes
Date: 2000/10/09
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Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote in message <8rt642$g5r$1@wanadoo.fr>...
>
>"Marin David Condic" <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> a �crit dans le message
news: 39DF3347.38C82563@acm.org...
>> If I were the Judge, my legislating from the bench would go like
this: "You
>> guys wrote this ARM. The ARM defines the Ada language. The packages
in the
>> annexes are thus part of the Ada Language.
>Well, the cover says: "Ada : the language. The standard libraries". One
could argue that everything after the cardboard page belongs
>to the standard libraries and not the language...
>
>Picky lawyer hat off: Of course, "language defined types" applies to
all types defined in the LRM. :-)


If you look in the index, you'll find, indexed under "language-defined
types", a list of all of the language defined types. It includes
Unbounded_String and all of the other things declared in those packages.
While the index isn't normative, its pretty clear what the intent of the
language designers was.

            Randy.