In message <7xocdi56cp....@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote: > I'd say the Ada standardizers went to a great deal of trouble to specify > and document stuff that other languages simply leave undefined, leaving > developers relying on implementation-specific behavior that's not part > of the standard.
OK, I have a copy of K&R 2nd Ed on a shelf within reach here. Can you point out some behaviour that C programmers might need to rely on, that is not specified in that document? > Ada itself is not necessarily more complicated. It is. Look at its baroque type structure. Hint: why is type A is B; a syntax error? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list