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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations
Date: 2000/03/15
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In article <38ce8e44@eeyore.callnetuk.com>,
  "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> wrote:
> I think you've answered your own question: you SHOULD use
private types for
> Time_Type and Delta_Time_Type. That way, not only do you get
the control
> over operations that you need, you also get an explicit
statement of unit
> for all your literals!

Sure, this is quite familiar (and is in fact Ada 83), but in
practice it is often awfully heavy to use this approach and
lose literals. So it is nice to have an alternative approach.


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