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From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Unchecked_Conversion on different sized types -- problem?
Date: 2000/01/14
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In article <387E574A.146BD794@home.com> , Bryce Bardin 
<bbardin@home.com>  wrote:

> But why use a representation clause for Color?
>
>   type Color is ( Black, White );
> --  for Color use ( Black => 30, White => 37 );

Better yet, why even use an enumeration type at all?

type Color is new Integer;

Black : constant Color := 30;
White : constant Color := 37;


Matt
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