Re: HELP: renames and enum values

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <38F5D6F9.5B8892F2@bton.ac.uk>,
  John English <je@bton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> > All i was attempting to say is that
> >
> >    type blah renames bleh;
> >
> > could be predicted to have the same semantics as a subtype
> > declaration (this would be the "other way" of performing
> > subtyping).
> >
> > I know what beginners think of, because I had 8 years of
> > teaching beginners. This is something that some of them
> > thought of (but not many because most of them were introduced
> > to subtypes long before renames!).
>
> What's even less obvious is the way to rename enumeration literals:
>
>  function Enum_Literal return Enum_Type renames Other_Enum_Literal;
>
> Now, that *really* confuses them, and none of them would ever be
> able to guess it without being told!

What's wrong with:
   Enum_Literal : constant Enum_Type := Other_Enum_Literal;

?

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