In article <EG2Dv5.74D@ecf.toronto.edu>, doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick
Doyle) wrote:


>>With the exit approach, comprehension only depends on what has come before.
>
>Yes, there seems to be an analogy here, but I think it's superficial.
>Certainly the statement "comprehension dependy only on what has come
>before" applies in both cases, but let's consider whether this is
>really important.

I'm merely stating what was told to me privately by Ada's original designer
(Jean Ichbiah) and what is documented publicly in the Ada 83 Rationale. 
There definately _is_ an analogy, because the designer decided
intentionally that there would be.  This analogy isn't superficial at all -
it pervades the whole of the design of the language.

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