From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: character literals
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:30:22 -0700
Date: 2014-02-11T18:30:22-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ldeire$4kr$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d08b5d0-012c-4b94-b8b9-ea6e83f2df4f@googlegroups.com>
On 02/11/2014 04:56 PM, adambeneschan@gmail.com wrote:
>
> The first "loop" statement, which is ambiguous, was legal in Ada 83, when
> there was only one character type; when Wide_Character was added to Ada 95
> [Wide_Wide_Character wasn't added until Ada 2005], this became illegal, which
> caused some compatibility headaches for existing code.
Nonsense. Ada 83 had user-defined character types. ARM-83 3.5.2 ("Character
Types") includes the declaration of character type Roman_Digit.
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2014-02-11 22:27 character literals agent
2014-02-11 22:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-02-11 23:45 ` Bill Findlay
2014-02-11 23:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-02-11 23:58 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-11 23:56 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-12 0:18 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-12 1:34 ` agent
2014-02-12 2:03 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-12 12:50 ` agent
2014-02-12 1:30 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-02-12 1:50 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-12 15:53 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-12 17:55 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-02-14 12:39 ` agent
2014-02-14 18:36 ` AdaControl was: " Simon Clubley
2014-02-15 6:26 ` J-P. Rosen
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