Re: enumration using integers?

[Sven Nilsson <emwsvni@emw.ericsson.se>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> It understands perfectly what you want. It just won't allow you to do that. :-)

I knew it! The machines are revolting!! Well, this machine is gonna be
playing Britney Spears MP3's the whole day... Take that you ungreatful
piece of ...
> 
> The next obvious question is *why* do you want to do this? What are you trying
> to accomplish with an enumeration of integers?
> 

Right. I want to have a type containing certain integers that I can use
in calculations. Something like this:

  type Distance is (10, 15, 20, 37);
  Dist : Distance := 15;
  Result : Integer := 0;
begin
  Result := Some_Formula * Dist; -- And perhaps a typecast if need be.

I could do that in other ways, for instance as suggested by Marc and
Philip, but that's not really the issue. I wanted to know if I could
magically write something to make my type-construct legal. Which I
probably can't. *sob*

-Sven