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From: Eric Hughes <eric.eh9@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Bounded
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:46:12 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:56:57 -0700 (PDT), Eric Hughes wrote:
> I assert that that Ada as currently defined has no bound on the size
> of numbers within universal_integer.

On Apr 15, 8:58 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> It specifies the lower bound and leaves the upper bound up to the vendor.
> Which by no means imply that there were no upper bound.

That's an upper bound for a compiler, not for "Ada as currently
defined".  Please check my language carefully.

> Moreover,
> because the number of all instances of all existed, existing and future Ada
> compilers is obviously finite, there also exists the upper bound of
> universal_integer as a whole.

"All compilers that were, all that are, and all that will ever be"--
these are not part of the Ada language definition.  My assertion
stands.

I would still like to know what you think universal_integer actually
is.

Eric