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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: output of enumeration types
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:31:05 +0200
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:04:04 +0200, Staszek Goldstein wrote:

> I have got the following problem: having defined
> type roman_digit is ('I','V','X','L','C','D','M');
> type roman_number is array (positive range <>) of roman_digit;

But Roman number is not an array of letters. As others have pointed out 'I'
is not a digit. It can represent or not a decimal position depending on the
context. For example in 'XIII', the "digits" are 'X' and 'III'. Anyway it
should rather be:

type Roman_Number is range 1..3999;

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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