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Subject: Re: Standard missing a 'Negative' subtype?...
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On Sunday, September 15, 2013 8:36:56 AM UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:
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> >             Natural and Positive are used in the definition of
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> > other things in the ARM; nothing needed Negative (or any other
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> > subtypes).
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> 
> "because they are needed in other parts of the ARM" shouldn't be the
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> only criterion! "what users [i.e., we developers] would find useful"
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> should be considered too - otherwise we wouldn't have Ada.Containers,
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> for example.
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> That said, Negative seems to come well below the bar.

Sure, and adding it now might cause all sorts of issues...

...just a shame it wasn't considered from the start...if only for symmetry!

I'm still waiting on Ada.Networks...