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From: marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc[e] Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Learning Ada
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Date: 31 Aug 89 22:37:05 GMT
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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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Marc Sabatella
HP Colorado Language Lab (CoLL)
marc@hpmonk