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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Enumeration literals and their associated functions
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:21:26 +0200, Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> If instead "RED" above is considered to be a literal, then what's the 
> sense of having an associated function at all?

Literal = function. So the following is legal:

   type Color is (RED, GREEN, BLUE);
   function Get_Red return Color renames RED;

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