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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Overloading attributes
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"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote in message 
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> anon@att.net writes:
...
>> If the ARG accepted input then it would be posted on a website for all
>> to read and comment on that input. That way the ARG could judge the
>> community desire for that request.
>
> Newsflash for the ignorant: that is already the case and has been for
> decades; see http://www.ada-auth.org.

Not to mention Ada-Comment. The ARG has been taking input from the public 
longer than it (the ARG) has existed. The Ada-Comment list address is 
included in almost all editions of the Ada Standard since Ada 95 
(unfortunately, ISO doesn't let us put it into their versions), and there 
have been hundreds of comments posted there in that time. (And there were 
similar mechanisms for Ada 83, those used postal mail because the Internet 
was not yet in wide use then. Along with a similar mailing list during the 
development of Ada 9x; the ARG as we know it today started after Ada 9x was 
completed.)

We're well aware that there are some people that are unaware of all of these 
public channels, and we're going to try to do a better job in the future of 
publisizing them -- but that doesn't change the fact that these channels 
exist. The ARG does not work in a vacuum.

                                                 Randy.