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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
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"singlespeeder" <singlespeeder@32sixteen.com> writes:

> I currently develop systems that have to compile with different Ada 83 and
> Ada 95 compilers on different OSs (Dec Ada on OpenVMS/Gnat on Windows). The
> one thing that keeps biting me - despite backward compatibility is the way
> that interfaces have changed between standards. I thought respecting
> interface concepts was generally agreed to be A Good Thing, and can't
> believe that Ada 95 didn't follow this philosophy.

Ada 9X was intended to be *very* compatible with Ada 83.  The only time
that was violated were for very good reasons (or so we thought).
Perhaps you can give some examples?

Note that if different Ada 83 compilers were already different, then you
can't blame it on Ada 95.

- Bob