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Re: Re: Learning Ada

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From: Marc[e] Sabatella
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 22:37
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>Of course there is the classic (from Ada): "Gee I need the cube of X":
>	z := x ** 3;
>which, of course (:-) generates the message "Ambiguous Expression".

This is a feature of the compiler, not the language.
It would be an argument against Ada only in those environments where you can't
get a good Ada compiler

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HP Colorado Language Lab (CoLL)
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