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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:44:31 +0900
Reply-To: Toshitaka KUMANO <[log in to unmask]>
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From: Toshitaka KUMANO <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Both were proposed (along with "goto <label> when"), but none were
> included in the revision.

Oh, there is nothing new under the sun...

> > I understand and agree with the philosphy of not piling on
> > a lot of low pay-off features, but I always wondered why
> > this one was rejected.  It seems to be a nice readability
> > enhancement, not a degradation.  It certainly can't be
> > hard to implement after "exit when" is debugged.
>
> This is how I felt, but STT disagreed.

I also would like to know why they were rejected.

If the reason was not of technical one, but of schedule to Ada95 or so,
these feature could be proposed again.

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