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From: Al Johnston <sofeise@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: HELP: renames and enum values
Date: 2000/04/11
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> > What I really want here is a rename of a data type,
> > which doesn't seem to be available in ada...
>
> subtype x is y;
>
> why isn't that good enough for renaming purposes????

S Harris gave the "correct" answer to why the above
is not correct (I started this thread, so I get to say what is
correct with respect to my intent).  He said:

>It really doesn't rename the type.
>Enumeration literals are not available from
>the subtype.

To get to the values associated with subtype "x" you
still have to reference type "y".  This defeats the whole
point of doing the "rename" (implemented as a subtype).

-al