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> > to make Pascal let me have it both ways by declaring both types, one
> > type indexed 0..NN-1 and the other 1..NN, and then I set a pointer of
> > one type to an array originally declared with another type. I'm
> > guessing that Ada doesn't allow this, however.
  You can convert an access to one thing to an access to another using
Unchecked_Conversion.  You can also declare A, then declare B and
for B'address use A'address.