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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: ANN: Ada 2005 Math Extensions, 20100810 release
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On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:55:05 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> I found that I could say
> 
>    package body Whatever is
> 
>       subtype Real is Complex_Arrays.Real_Arrays.Real;

Yes you can, but don't. I used this pattern before and ran into problems
with this, when in some contexts one Real conflicted with / hid another, so
that a compiled generic package could not be instantiated. (Again, no idea
if that was a compiler bug or not.)

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