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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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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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