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Subject: Re: Lower bounds of Strings
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On Tuesday, 5 January 2021 at 14:31:27 UTC, Stephen Davies wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 January 2021 at 11:57:18 UTC, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: 
> > S [1] - First array element 
> > S (1) - Array element at index 1 
> Yes, I like that idea as a possible alternative solution.

To take this a bit further, suppose we have an array on "Natural range <>"
rather than "Positive range <>", I guess S[0] would now be the first
element of slice S, which still seems reasonable.

Alternatively, thinking about my original suggestion, I guess the modern
Ada way would be to allow an aspect along the lines of:
subtype Mono_String is String with First => 1;