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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Ada (TM) vs C
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 02:07:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 02:07:19 1983
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as no way to specify procedures which take a variable
number of arguments or whose arguments may be of any type.  On Multics
we have extended the PL/I language to allow this:
	declare ioa_ entry options (variable);
It is probably against Ada philosophy to add such an extension, though.
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			Barry Margolin
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