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> [Inc]
> >You certainly think to Borland Pascal. Yes, it was a good idea from them.
> >(Standard) Pascal has only "Succ" and "Pred".

Vinzent Hoefler:
> Yes, but note the slight semantic difference there: Inc and Dec don't
> come with range checks.

Interesting. Of course the Ada implementation would follow the
"natural" rule: range check (according to the type), unless suppressed.
Maybe a precision for readers without too much exposure to Pascal:
"Succ" and "Pred" are functions (x:= Succ(x)) like the eponym Ada attributes.
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