Re: Is it Ada 2005 or Ada 2007?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Jerry writes:
>> I have seen the "new" Ada referred to as both Ada 2005 and Ada 2007.
>> When referring to the new standard and without referring to any
>> particular implementation of it, which is correct or preferred? I sort
>> of understand that the standard wasn't agreed to until 2007 but that
>> might not be the defining event. Is there an official designation or
>> are left to our own devices to call it what we want?
>
> Formally, it is "ISO/IEC 8652:1995(E) with Corrigendum 1 and Amendment
> 1".

For a reference for these details, see
http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada05.html 

That page consistently calls the language "Ada 2005".

> Officially informally (!), it is "Ada 2005" because ARM 3.1/2 says so.
> That is the result of a majority agreement between the members of the
> working group, most of whom are compiler vendors.

Just being pedantic, I don't see that statement in ARM 3.1/2; that
paragraph doesn't exist; see
http://www.adaic.org/standards/05rm/html/RM-3-1.html 

Perhaps you meant a different paragraph?

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