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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Pred
Date: 1998/01/24
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In Ada 83 Pred could only be applied to discrete types, but in Ada 95 it
can be applied to all scalar types.  For fixed-point types, it denotes a
function which returns the value one machine number smaller than the
argument.

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Martin M Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<JRNnTAAOCmy0EwYL@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>...
> 'Pred on a float? shurely shome mishtake...
> 
> how about something like -
> 
> subtype A_Heading is Ownship_Heading_Base range 0.0 .. 360.0;
> 
> subtype Ownship_Heading is A_Heading
>   range A_Heading'first .. A_Heading'Last - A_Heading'Small;