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Terms are defined throughout this International Standard,
indicated by
italic type. Terms explicitly defined in this International
Standard are not to be presumed to refer implicitly to similar terms
defined elsewhere.
Mathematical terms not defined
in this International Standard are to be interpreted according to the
CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Second Edition. Other
terms Terms not defined in this International
Standard are to be interpreted according to the
Webster's Third New
International Dictionary of the English Language. Informal descriptions
of some terms are also given in
Annex N, “
Glossary”.
Discussion: Here are some AARM-only definitions:
The Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG)
interprets the
Ada Reference Manual RM83.
An Ada Issue (AI) is a numbered
ruling from the ARG.
Ada Issues created for Ada
83 are denoted as "AI83", while Ada Issues created for Ada
95 are denoted as "AI95" in this document. The
Ada Commentary Integration Document (ACID) is an edition of
the
Ada 83 RM RM83 in which clearly marked
insertions and deletions indicate the effect of integrating the approved
AIs.
The Uniformity Rapporteur
Group (URG)
issued issues
recommendations intended to increase uniformity across Ada implementations.
The functions of the URG have been assumed by the
ARG. A Uniformity Issue
(UI)
was is
a numbered recommendation from the URG.
A Defect
Report and Response is an official query to WG9 about an error in the
standard. Defect Reports are processed by the ARG, and are referenced
here by their ISO numbers: 8652/nnnn. Most changes to the Ada 95 standard
include reference(s) to the Defect Report(s) that prompted the change.
The
Ada Conformity Assessment Test Suite (ACATS) is a set of tests
intended to check the conformity of Ada implementations to this standard.
This set of tests was previously known as the Ada Compiler Validation
Capability (ACVC).