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Subject: Re: Lower bounds of Strings
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On Saturday, 16 January 2021 at 09:30:19 UTC, G.B. wrote:
> On 15.01.21 11:24, Stephen Davies wrote: 
> > Long_String_Name(1..2) is much nicer than 
> > Long_String_Name(Long_String_Name'First..Long_String_Name'First+1)
> Avoid literals for indexing. 
My very next example used a subtype for indexing,
which you omitted from your reply.
It makes me wonder if people like X(X'First) because it
gives the comfort of not using literals, even though it's
basically equivalent to X[0] in C, Python, etc.

> "On which side are you on 1 vs 0 for The First?" 
I like that Ada gives the choice of "Positive range <>" or
"Natural range <>".