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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Bounded
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On Apr 23, 7:40 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:14:24 +0000 (UTC), Peter Hermann wrote:
> > BTW (changing topic):
> > I am still hoping that the next Ada 2015 will contain
>
> > subtype Number_Base is Integer range 2 .. 36; -- old:16;
>
> You should have asked for more, much MORE!

Right!  Base 36 allows us to use letters from A to Z, instead of just
A to F.  But with Unicode, we now have many, many, many more letters,
so why limit it to 36?  I think it would be great to have a numeric
base that would allow us to encode a numeric literal that includes C
with a hacek, a Tamil letter, some 5th-century Ogham runes, and a
couple Chinese ideographs all in the same literal.  It's obvious that
this would be a very useful feature.

                                -- Adam