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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada
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"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message news:<u77p6fp1hcta76@corp.supernews.com>...

> You should never read data from an external source into a 
> variable whose type doesn't include all possible values 
> for its precision.  Therefore, 'Valid is still useless


That's complete nonsense. Indeed whenever ANYONE on this
newsgroup decrees a feature in Ada to be useless. They probably are
missing important understanding. After all that person is saying in
effect "the people who designed and reviewed Ada 95 are idiots, they
put in a feature that is useless, but I am cleverer than all of them
and I know it is useless". In fact 'Valid is very useful in many
situations.