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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:43:22 -0500
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Sure, solutions do exist. Its just that people might often have used a rep
clause where it wasn't strictly necessary because they were thinking of some
future situation where having the rep clause may have been important. It may
not be a *great* reason - but it is possible that there *was* a reason -
other than total ignorance. :-)

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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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>
> I would derive a new type for external use and put the representation
> clauses on that:
>
>    package Rep is
>
>       type Int is (A, B);
>
>       for Int use (A => 0, B => 1);  --  confirming, of course
>
>       type Ext is new Int;
>
>       for Ext use (A => 16#aa#, B => 16#bb#);
>
>    end Rep;
>