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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:23:59 -0700
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Larry Hazel wrote:

> I remember starting in the middle of an Ada 83 project.  There was a separate
> type defined for everything.  An old Elvis song kept going through my head.  But
> instead of "girl happy", I was substituting "type happy".

I remember a project where the integer types were defined,

          type Int_8 is range -2**7..2**7-1;
          for Int_8'Size use 8;
          type Int_16 ...
          for Int_16'Size ...
          type Int_32 ...
          for Int_32'Size ...

Richard Riehle