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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: [Not important] the =?utf-8?B?4oCcbm90IG51bGzigJ0=?= notation
 in Ada 2005
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:51:24 -0400
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"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> I remember some peoples says here, this is a pity to have �not null�
> annotations, while the case which should be clearly marked, is the one
> where a reference may be null. I'm OK with that principle. But
> concretely  what would have been the notation ? �may be null� ? Two
> reserved words  added for that ? A simple �null� would not have been
> really expressive  (just a though I get right a few minutes ago).

Take a look at OCaml, for example.

- Bob