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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:15:45 +0200
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On 08.04.14 11:15, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> Constrained types*are*  useless -- Ada has no such thing. It only has
>> >unconstrained types (remember that names only apply to subtypes). And in
>> >particular, a constrained class-wide type is an evil thing, because it's
>> >mixing things that should not be mixed: relaxing and tightening constraints
>> >at the same time.
> OK, constraining is useless, discriminants are evil, specific instances of
> classes are wrong. We have to agree to disagree.

Reminder: an Ada "type", formally, is different from the "type"
that Dmitry has in mind (seeing subtype constraints as
establishing a "type", IIRC, which, for the most part, it isn't
doing, in Ada).

It might help to have a USENET specific type of link
that establishes evidence of the difference in terminology.