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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Private discrete type as index
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:45:06 +0100
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>>   type x is limited private;
>>   type test is array(x) of boolean;
>   The "array" abstraction has certain characteristics, among them
> sequential indexing.

Why so? Array is just a mapping index->element, so if no index ranges 
required then the array index need not to be ordered (have "<" and "="), 
only "=" is required. Anyway a limited type is allowed to have both.

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