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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada
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"AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message news:<UjC79.5960$hk3.1112693@news.xtra.co.nz>...

> To be consistent, should not it be:
> 
> subtype String_Index is String_Count range 
> String_Count'First + 1 .. String_Count'Last;
> 
> Otherwise you are assuming that counting starts from zero (or one).

Actually this seems a poor suggestion, your rewrite does
not emphasize that the lower bound of strings starts at 1.