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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: using charles library
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:21:11 -0500
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Roman V. Isaev said:
>p2ada also breaks on things like this: bih:=1.e-5;

So does Pastran. That's not surprising, that is not legal Pascal
according to the Pascal standard.

Of course, a particular compiler might allow it anyway. That's one
difference between Ada and nearly every other programming language: Ada
compilers are tested for conformance. An Ada compiler that tried to
allow 1.e-5 would fail to pass the conformity tests and would be fixed.
Other languages aren't tested, and code that doesn't work on another
compiler is the result.

                  Randy.