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 > In some of my code I used first letter to indicate the type
 > something like Hungarian notation with T. e.g.
 > i - integers, names like iCount, iMoney etc
 > s - string
 > b - boolean
 > f - float
 > It gives the code great clearance, but it would be hard to deal this way
 > with self-defined types.

This is just as offensive as HTML newsposts.
(Or stupid newsreaders that answer posts in HTML when I don't want them to!)

Anyway, you discover a variable needs to be a float instead of an integer,
so you have to search and replace through all the clients?
Ada is a high-order language--that means it should express the abstraction,
NOT the implementation.