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Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the
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> Having a type that magically does a mod operation every time
> you do arithmetic is not an aid to readability.
   Target := Indices'succ(Target) [ mod Ring_Buffer_Size];  ?
Even "Target := (Target+1) mod Ring_Buffer_Size;" vs "Target := Target+1;"
is a step downward in abstraction.  It also allows more easily the error
Target := Target+1 mod Ring_Buffer_Size;