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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 23:27:21 -0700
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On 04/02/2014 10:51 PM, Pascal Obry wrote:
>
> But again this is doable today in Ada (even 1983) with a library and
> proper overriding of the operators.

Well, no. Unbounded_Integer would work like any other integer type. You wouldn't 
have to convert literals or named numbers:

I : Unbounded_Integer := 1E1000;

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