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From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: First time Ada has let me down (recipe)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:45:41 +0200
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Guillaume wrote:

> It's not as clean as the solution provided in Ada95 with "mod integers", as
> for one basic operation you're getting two extra copies (the two unchecked
> conversions).

You will not get extra copies due to unchecked convervsion if you use a
good compiler.