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The Ada Comment mailing list is the place to send and discuss technical comments on the Ada Standard. It is not the place to ask questions about specific Ada compilers, Ada programming problems, or Ada tools. (Such questions are best sent to the comp.lang.ada newsgroup.)
Comments should be submitted as described in the introduction to the Ada Reference Manual (see the Ada 2012 Standard, for instance.) Specifically:
Comments should use the following format:
      !topic Title summarizing comment
      !reference Ada 202x 2012 RMss.ss(pp)
      !from Author Name yy-mm-dd
      !keywords keywords related to topic
      !discussion

      text of discussion
where ss.ss is the clause or subclause number, pp is the paragraph number where applicable, and yy-mm-dd is the date the comment was sent. The date is optional, as is the !keywords line.
Please use a descriptive “Subject” in your e-mail message, and limit each message to a single comment.
When correcting typographical errors or making minor wording suggestions, please put the correction directly as the topic of the comment; use square brackets [ ] to indicate text to be omitted and curly braces { } to indicate text to be added, and provide enough context to make the nature of the suggestion self-evident or put additional information in the body of the comment, for example:
      !topic [c]{C}haracter
      !topic it[']s meaning is not defined
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