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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> OK, so why did you refuse to work further on the AIs defining this. :-)
> :-)

;-)

> In fairness to Bob, the ARG struggled with these issues (the
> "recommended level of support") for years. But a consensus on the
> answers could never be reached.

In my earlier posting, I said that if I were designing a language from
scratch I would do all these glorious portable things.  In the context
of Ada, it is probably neither possible nor desirable, given the history
-- existing language rules, existing compiler implementations, existing
Ada code.

- Bob