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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 15 May 2012 01:30:03 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>> I'm not sure that it is good idea in general, but certainly it makes 
>> sense
>> in limited cases (surely including your enumeration example).
>
> 1- all string and character types;
> 2. all numeric types;
> 3. managed access types, fat pointers, garbage collection.

Right. I would have said "all scalar types" in order to include enumerations 
as well as numeric types. But that's roughly what I was thinking about. In 
any case, just a wild idea right now.

                                 Randy.