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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
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Stuart Palin <stuart.palin@baesystems.com> writes:

> Something like '{' (I would also make a syntax error not to have the
> closing '}' at the end of the line).

That's the same as Pascal, except that you require it to go at
end-of-line.

> Some potential candidates are ruled out by the Allowable Replacement
> Characters (LRM[83] 2.10 - what happened to that section in LRM[95]?). 

It moved to J.2.

> Anyhow it is all water under the bridge, the die is cast - but it still
> peeves me!

I don't take that attitude at all.  Ada isn't the be-all and end-all of
programming languages, so it's reasonable to discuss alternatives.

- Bob