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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 09:24:17 -0000
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> I am especially interested in any use of refactoring in support of
> legacy code, either to clean up code that has been automatically
> translated to Ada, or to prepare Ada code so that it can be translated
> more easily into something else.

How about removing the 'confirming enumeration rep specs' that
are no longer necessary in Ada95?

e.g.
from:

    type An_Enumeration is (Foo, Bar);
    for  An_Enumeration is (Foo => 0, Bar => 1);

to:

    type An_Enumeration is (Foo, Bar);