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Subject: pragma Pure (Ada)
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:50:36 +0200
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In =E2=80=9CA Brief Introduction to Ada 2012=E2=80=9D (a great paper fro=
m John Barnes) ->
http://www2.adacore.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/Ada2012_Rational_Intr=
oducion.pdf

On page 12, you may read

> Ada 95 introduced the package Ada thus
>    package Ada is
>       pragma Pure(Ada);
>    end Ada;
> However, a close reading of the RM revealed that poor Ada
> is illegal since the pragma Pure is not in one of the allowed
> places for a pragma.

Does that mean that this was really illegal from strict layers point of =
 =

view ? So GNAT was hacked ?

Notice how John Barnes was pleasantly teasing with the wording, as he  =

wrote =E2=80=9Cpoor Ada is illegal=E2=80=9D instead of =E2=80=9CPure(Ada=
) is illegal=E2=80=9D :-D


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