From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.152.203.199 with SMTP id ks7mr3361344lac.0.1403954409545; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!w7no16909599lbi.1!news-out.google.com!kx1ni1490lbc.1!nntp.google.com!goblin1!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!rt.uk.eu.org!news.mixmin.net!news2.hunter.apana.org.au!brushtail.apana.org.au!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A curiosity about the RM Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 07:09:45 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <14459410-f5a4-433d-b3ea-5cac31d0d86c@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 05:09:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2b3884a634d8f846e0712b4e3a92507a"; logging-data="32459"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kqGFlz7WECIeZh8uv76w3" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <14459410-f5a4-433d-b3ea-5cac31d0d86c@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sk4REnLigHvGPH5zq7IGGHMFK28= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187274 Date: 2014-06-28T07:09:45+02:00 List-Id: Le 27/06/2014 10:53, mockturtle a écrit : > Dear all, I just payed attention to the fact that some paragraphs in > our beloved RM are labeled with a single number, while others are > labeled with something like "number1/number2" (see, for example, > http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-1-1-2.html) > > I am just curious about the difference. I could do a wild guess by > saying that "number2" is a kind of "version counter", so that when I > say "Paragraph 1/3 of 1.1.2" I always refer to the same text, > independently on the document version. > > How far did I shoot? Close enough ;-) Paragraph without version number are unchanged since Ada83. with /1, it's unchanged since Ada95, /2 Ada 2005, and /3 Ada 2012. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr