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From: "Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
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Subject: RE: status of Ada STL?
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:50:19 +0200 (MET DST)
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Date: 2002-06-26T12:50:19+02:00

> I also agree about the record notation of
>    type X is record ...
>    end record ;
> being the subject of continual error, both in writing and in reading.
> 
[snip]
> 
> When reading code, it is much more difficult to match up "record" with
> the right "is record ..." than it would be to match "end X" with the one
> and only "type X".

I see the point in having "end record X;", but I do not buy that it's difficult to match it with "type X" since records cannot be nested.