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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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> This insures that instantiations of
> Ada.Unchecked_Conversion between day_name_type and
> integer types produce specified results.
  An enumeration of days of the week is unlikely to be of the same 'size
as integer'size, so the result is "implementation defined".  And why
worry about that when
  My_Day : constant  array(Day_Of_Week) of Integer
    := (Sunday => 7, Monday => 0, ...
is so simple, portable, and modifiable.