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Mr. Clinton at first said that he would immediately let gays serve in the military, but of late he's been saying he has to study the matter.

At first i said to myself, "Oh, come ON, Mr. Clinton, it's beginning to look like you made this particular promise to appeal to a consituency and now that you've gotten elected you're backpedaling," but matters are more complex and subtle than i then realized. I was looking up an unrelated matter in the online Ada Reference Manual, and I see the following examples of incomplete types [3.8.1]:

Examples of mutually dependent access types:

      type PERSON(SEX : GENDER); --incomplete type declaration 
      type CAR;                  --incomplete type declaration 

      type PERSON_NAME is access PERSON; 
      type CAR_NAME    is access CAR; 

      type CAR is 
	 record 
	    NUMBER  : INTEGER; 
	    OWNER   :PERSON_NAME; 
	 end record;                                                                                

      type PERSON(SEX : GENDER) is 
	 record 
	    NAME     : STRING(1 .. 20); 
	    BIRTH    : DATE; 
	    AGE      : INTEGER range 0 .. 130;                  
	    VEHICLE  : CAR_NAME; 
	    case SEX is 
	       when M => WIFE           : PERSON_NAME(SEX => F); 
	       when F => HUSBAND        : PERSON_NAME(SEX => M); 
	    end case; 
	 end record; 

      MY_CAR, YOUR_CAR, NEXT_CAR : CAR_NAME;--implicitly initialized with 
						null value 

GACK! Ada is, of course, a DOD project.

Of COURSE Mr. Clinton can't let gays into the military immediately--they would need to rewite the Ada manual. Further study is indeed needed.

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