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From: "Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>
To: "'comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org'" <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: RE: Cannot use NULL as identifier?
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:23:06 -0400
Date: 2001-06-05T13:23:06-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.991761907.14186.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert A Duff [mailto:bobduff@world.std.com]

>> I agree with you.  I don't think it will ever go
>> away either, but the LRM did indicate that it 
>> probably would.
>
> The RM says it's "obsolescent".  It doesn't say it's going away.

To quote my American Heritage Dictionary:

   obsolescent - In the process of passing out of use;
                 becoming obsolete.

   obsolete - No longer in use.

So it sounds to me like "obsolescent" means at some point
it will no longer be used, just not yet.

Frank



             reply	other threads:[~2001-06-05 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-05 17:23 Beard, Frank [this message]
2001-06-06 15:53 ` Cannot use NULL as identifier? Tucker Taft
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2001-06-04 22:48 Beard, Frank
2001-06-05  2:34 ` Robert A Duff
2001-06-04 18:16 Beard, Frank
2001-06-04 20:36 ` Robert A Duff
2001-05-30 21:45 Beard, Frank
2001-05-31 14:53 ` John English
2001-06-02 10:53 ` Florian Weimer
2001-05-30 13:04 McDoobie
2001-05-30 13:22 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-30 13:27 ` Philip Anderson
2001-05-30 16:40   ` Pascal Obry
2001-05-31 11:49     ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-05-31 12:30       ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-05-31 13:33         ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-05-31 16:26           ` Mario Amado Alves
2001-06-03 10:25         ` Florian Weimer
2001-05-30 20:52   ` Florian Weimer
2001-05-30 13:32 ` Martin Dowie
2001-05-30 13:33 ` Petter Fryklund
2001-05-31  3:15   ` Randy Brukardt
2001-05-30 13:52 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-31  2:09   ` Robert A Duff
2001-05-31 10:49   ` McDoobie
2001-05-31 15:12     ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 14:01       ` John English
2001-06-01 14:48         ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-01 15:57           ` John English
2001-06-02  6:21             ` Simon Wright
2001-06-01 15:03         ` Gary Scott
2001-06-04 13:46           ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 15:19         ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-01 15:26         ` Brian Rogoff
2001-06-01 16:16         ` David Gillon
2001-06-04 12:02         ` Stephen Leake
2001-06-04 17:54           ` tmoran
2001-06-04 18:51             ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-06  9:28           ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-06-06  9:37             ` John English
2001-06-06  9:48             ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-06-06 10:05               ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-06-05  8:37         ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-30 13:58 ` Claude SIMON
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