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Marin David Condic wrote:
> Of course, this doesn't save you from everything - e.g. passing a
 > velocity to a function that needs an acceleration - but you just
> can't always have absolute safety.

Except that, since the C++ solution does offer such absolute safety,
with zero runtime overhead in speed or space, we are merely seeing
a deficiency in Ada.