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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
Date: 19 Sep 2003 16:14:07 -0400
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"Mark A. Biggar" <mark@biggar.org> writes:

> You may or may not be able to turn this off.  The problem is that the
> Ada LRM says that on any assignment if an exception is raised when
> evaluating the RHS then the LHS shall be left unchanged.

No, the Ada RM does *not* say that (for predefined exceptions).
Read 11.6 carefully.  That was true in Ada 83, but not in Ada 95.

- Bob