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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada Enumerations
Date: 1997/12/03
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Jim Rogers said

<<The 'Pos attribute returns the position of the enumeration value.  This is
unaffected by the representation clause.  To obtain the representation
value
you must instantiate Ada.Unchecked_Conversion. for your enumeration
type.
>>

If you are using GNAT, you can use the 'Enum_Rep attribute to get the
representation value for an enumeration literal. This seems a generally
useful attribute, it would be nice if other Ada 95 compilers would
implement it.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies