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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:41:50 +0200
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Date: 2012-04-27T09:41:50+02:00
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> 0) Which features do you think can be dropped from Ada?

I would like to drop (most of) the predefined numerical types from
package Standard.  We have to keep Duration, but are any of the other
numerical types in Standard really required by the language?  (Natural
and Integer'Base are used in the declaration of "**".  Is there a
sensible way around that?)

And the rationale: I believe that avoiding predefined types will limit
the temptation to use the same type (or two types) for all numerical
objects.

Greetings,

Jacob
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