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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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To me this is no more "syntactic sugar" than, say, some of the
features of Ada.Strings.Fixed, or of Ada.Interfaces.C.

I would suggest the attribute name 'Rep.  Its inverse should be
provided as well -- perhaps by overloading the 'Value
attribute.

"Lutz Donnerhacke" <lutz@iks-jena.de> wrote in message
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> * Martin Dowie wrote:
> >James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> quote the RM:
> >> Unchecked_Conversion may be used to query the internal codes
> >> used for an enumeration type. The attributes of the type, such as Succ,
> >> Pred, and Pos, are unaffected by the enumeration_representation_clause.
> >> For example, Pos always returns the position number, not the internal
> >> integer code that might have been specified in a
> >> enumeration_representation_clause.
>
> >Do I spot a possible language extension here?
> >How about a 'Underlying_Value attribute?
>
> That would only syntactic shugar, why burden this into the language?