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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Min/Max attribute makes promises it can't keep
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:07:24 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> As for the initial concern about giving a subtype name, in the case of 
> literals you have to give one somewhere (since a literal can be of many 
> different types, and the results can vary depending on the type used -- not 
> for 'Length, but for 'Last and most other properties).

No problem, Ada supports overloading in the result type. E.g. abs (-1) is
OK.

(I have an impression that many weird Ada rules rooted in an attempt to
express them at the grammar level.)

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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