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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
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"Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote in message
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: "Robert A Duff" <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote in message
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: : Of course x/y is not a literal.
: : My claim is that you shouldn't have to write ".0" on a floating point
: : literal that happens to be an integer.  That is,
: :
: :     X: Float := 0;
: :     Y: Float := 1/2;
: :
: : should be legal.

Just for the sake of completeness, I also want to point out that the second
declaration *can* be legal... if you use the following:

package Float_Away is

  function "/" (Left, Right: Standard.Integer) return Standard.Float;

end Float_Away;