Re: New limited range type?

[snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)]

"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:<bogf20$q1$1@titan.btinternet.com>...
> Ok, as we're in "my favourite thing I'd like in Ada" season, here's mine...
> 
> I'd like to be able to declare integer/float/fixed/decimal types that are
> limited, at both ends, and never raise exceptions, e.g.
> 
>    type Safe_Degrees is
>       digits 6 limited range -180.0 .. +180.0;  -- new use of 'limited'
.....

If the details could be worked out I'd sure like to see it.  It would
answer a *very* common need in the "real world" that Ada was designed
to address.

Mike