Problem with extended Pascal

In the recent round of public comments on the draft standard for Extended Pascal, B. Dietrich pointed out a defect of sufficient severity to require the attention of a wider audience than the few involved in the standardization effort. The problem (which at first sight seems trivial) is that the new feature allowing constant exxpressions as the lower bound of a subrange-type causes trouble in parsing. This writer believes that both the Committee and B. Dietrich have seriously underestimated the difficulty of resolving this ambiguity.