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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Syntax of extended return statement
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:23:06 -0400
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Bill Findlay <news@findlayw.plus.com> writes:

> My problem is that I see no justification for that in the Ada 2005 RM, which
> gives:
>
> extended_return_statement ::=
>
> return defining_identifier:[aliased] return_subtype_indication[:=expression]
> [do
>    handled_sequence_of_statements
> end return]; 
...
> Can anyone enlighten me?

"constant" is allowed by AI05-0015.  If you look at the latest version
of the RM, you will see that syntax allowed.

- Bob