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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: float with 24-bit resolution
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Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> writes:

>    Null_Object : T := null;

> I find the latter convention confusing, because it suggests that if
> the initialization part were omitted, then the object wouldn't be
> initialized.  But that would be incorrect.

What it says to me is that the programmer isn't all that used to the
language; so I go on newbie alert (painful)