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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: point by point advantages of Ada
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Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> writes:

> Ingo Marks <nospam_adv@region-nord.de> writes:
> [...]
> > http://www.adahome.com/articles/1997-03/ada_vs_cpp.html (note that Point 54 
> > is wrong: Ada95 knows "pragma assert")
> 
> No, it doesn't.  pragma Assert is a GNAT extension.

There's an AI that makes pragma Assert part of the language.
I don't know it's status, so I don't know if it is now part
of the language, or will be someday.  But I think most compilers
implement it -- not just GNAT.

- Bob