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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier?
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"Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil> writes:

> Well, I saw it referenced somewhere, and Ben
> confirmed it.  I think it was the same reason
> type Character was expanded from 128 to 256.

Not sure what "it" Ben confirmed...

> In any event, the first 128 characters are 
> never going to change.  So, worse case, I'll
> cut and paste the current ASCII package and
> paste it into my own "My_ASCII" package and
> do a library level rename.  It will probably
> have all the character constants I will ever
> need.  Or I could be lazy and make ASCII
> rename Latin_1.

It is illegal to have a library unit called ASCII.
(And I'll bet you it will always be illegal.)

> And, if I turns out that I am wrong, then in
> twenty years, when it finally goes away, I'll
> admit you're right.  :-)

Package ASCII will never go away, so long as there is an Ada standard.

- Bob