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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Assertions in the Next Ada Standard
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Dale Stanbrough <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> I think another valuable one would be "assume" which is an 
> assertion that allows the compiler to invoke any code
> optimisation it can.

I think that's equivalent to an assertion, plus a pragma Suppress on the
assertion check.

- Bob