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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada code snippet help (array of arrays)
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 14, 1:05 am, Egil H=F8vik <egilho...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> >    T: constant Boolean :=3D True;
> >    F: constant Boolean :=3D False;
>
> No need to define your own constants... True and False are
> already enumerated values (constants) of type Boolean.

I think he defined those just for readability.  If you have a large
constant array, it might look better, look more like a chart, take up
less space on the screen, be easier to line up, etc., if you can do it
with shorter names such as single letters.  I've seen this sort of
thing done before.

                              -- Adam