Re: Text_IO for other standard types

["Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>]

You may well have already thought of or used this, but might I suggest that
you cobble together your own little package Handy (suggestion below), and
then your recalcitrant engineers need only 'with Handy' to get the stuff
they need.

   with Ada.Text_IO
   package Handy is
      type Handy_Modular is mod 2**32;
      package Handy_Modular_IO is new Ada.Text_IO(Handy_Modular);
      use Handy_Modular_IO;
      -- and so on ...
   end Handy;

I would add, however, that this ploy in no way detracts from your argument,
which I think has some merit.  What argument can there be for not providing
a predefined modular type, partner to the predefined integer type Integer? 
I think it has to be conceded that a predefined fixed-point type would not
be sensible.  One of the annexes does actually specify a predefined decimal
type, doesn't it?
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Marin David Condic wrote at length about the difficulty of convincing
programmers used to more pragmatic languages to adopt Ada.