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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/29
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In article <3727EA10.34D0AB3B@rocketmail.com>,
  Corey Ashford <yeroca@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Why no 'shift_left function?

That seems to me to be unnecesary complexity. It would
mean having to define the shifts for all possible modular
types, which is really overkill.

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