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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Renaming vs assignment to constant
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On 12/06/2013 11:03 AM, AdaMagica wrote:
> For limited types, the constant is impossible.

This was true in Ada-95 and earlier, but not in more recent versions. Indeed, I 
suspect that renaming a function result was introduced to make such limited 
constants possible.

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