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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:52:01 -0400
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> Because you have to instantiate the doggone thing for every integer type
> where you might want to do Add.  And you have to anticipate which types
> those are, or else do it when it's unnecessary.  It leads to a lot of
> useless (unreadable) clutter in the code.  So nobody bothers with that;
> we all just write X := X + 1, even when X is slightly complicated.

What is so wrong with something like?

   type My_Numbers is range 0..255;
   package Augmented_My_Numbers is new Augmented_Assignments(My_Numbers);

with an optional

   use Augmented_My_Numbers;

So there isn't that much clutter.  However, I do agree that