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> Not only is this kind of discipline common in most Ada programming
> teams, many teams set up coding guidelines prohibiting the use of the
> pre-defined data types.

That is one place where I _have_ seen an "unrealistic
level of discipline."  Since Positive was a prohibited
predefined data type, and since String is indexed by
Positive, String was prohibited, too (guilt by association!)

Sad the gyrations I saw code go through in order
to do String things with arrays of Characters
indexed by a "portable" type.