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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Record aggregate question (language lawyer needed!)
Date: 1996/06/24
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Date: 1996-06-24T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <31CAEC7B.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com>, "Theodore E. Dennison"
<dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> writes: 

|> Technically, I think they are of two different (anonymous) types,
|> both of which happen to be subtypes of STRING.

Newcomers trying to learn Ada are urged to ignore this misstatement,
which can only serve to confuse.  It reflects a fundamental
misunderstanding of the relationships among types and subtypes.

All subtypes of String are of the same type, namely type String!

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com