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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 <925401850.901.27@news.remarQ.com>,
  Fraser Wilson <fraser@sinopsis.com> wrote:
> I'm torn.  On the one hand, restricting modular types to
> powers of 2 would have been an arbitrary-looking quite
> un-Ada-like restriction.

Oh I don't know, perhaps you might even have decided
on a declaration something like

  A : Unsigned 16;

where 16 is the number of bits :-)

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