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From: Bret@B
Subject: Re: Modular type. What is it and why?
Date: 1999/04/07
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In article <7egmbf$tgi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, Robert says...
 
>
>People can read a general definition of modular types,
>and easily miss that this is in fact the facility in
>Ada for providing conventional unsigned types.
>

Then why did they not simply call it 'unsigned'? 
I agree it is more natural to call it 'unsigned' than
modular. Is it too late to change the RM?

Bert.