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On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 6:59:09 PM UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Right, but discriminant is a natural way to express constraint in Ada. 
> Formal generic parameter is a very bad way doing that.
> 
> As for having default value it is a requirement to have the type 
> constrained, which is a requirement to make assignment work. Which has 
> undesired implications on the type representation. Sigh.
>

Last time I checked, assignment worked perfectly with Ada.Strings.Bounded.
Sigh, right back to you.