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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/02/01
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Nick said

<<On the other hand, one might argue that decimal types should be implemented
in the same way as fixed types, on the grounds that this implementation
will have been chosen for maximum performance (rather than flexibility, or
the requirements of the Information Systems special annex).
>>

One would think the most reasonable approach is to let this depend
on Machine_Radix, that is why it is there!