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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Types,
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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:33:58 -0500, Stephen Leake wrote:

> "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> In the past I used _Type as a suffix for all of my types. However, there 
>> are times when that doesn't seem to fit. After all the standard types don't 
>> (usually) use a _Type suffix (Character, Integer, Positive, Vector, etc). 
> 
> The standard is Just Wrong. But we have to live with it.

Huh, it is not too late to introduce:

package Standard is
   ...
   subtype Integer_Type is Integer;
end Standard;

But Know what? "subtype" looks awfully wrong! Should not it be
"subtype_type"? What about

type_type  String_Type is
   array_type (Integer_Type range <>)
      of Character_Type;

(:-))

Consider it this way, if _Type is felt appropriate then that is
semantically equivalent to types having a separate name space. The latter
could be introduced in Ada at any time, being fully backward compatible.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de