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Marius Amado Alves wrote:

> String is another slightly disturbing thing. I'd rather have an Ada.Arrays
> generic on the types of index and element. Talk small. And then the same
> "create your own integers" argument would apply here. Create your own
> Strings. But this is designing a new language. (No, not C.)

This is called a one-dimensional type declaration. For example, type 
String is defined as

type String is array (Positive range <>) of Character;
pragma Pack (String);

What you want can be done in exactly the same way:

type Ada_Array_Instantiation is array (Index [range <>]) of Element;

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