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From: khostelley@yahoo.com (Kevin Hostelley)
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Subject: Declaring subtypes
Date: 9 Dec 2003 07:10:53 -0800
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I am rather new to Ada and I had a design question.  I'm working on a
web based application and I was wondering if declaring subtypes of
String for common database fields was overkill.  For example:

subtype Address_Line is String(1..60);
subtype City is String(1..40);
subtype Zip_Code is String(1..9);


I understand that Strong typing is one of the strengths of Ada but I
just don't know how far to go with it.

Thanks,

mamboking