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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Surprise in array concatenation
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"Dr. Adrian Wrigley" <amtw@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk> writes:

> By the way... why aren't fixed point types discrete?

I don't know.  Is it be a leftover from some limitations in Ada83?

> The values are integral multiples of small, which can be supplied by
> the user.  So I'd expect to be able to use fixed point types as
> array indices etc.  You cant :( Wouldn't fixed point be *much* more
> useful if it was discrete?

Yes.

Jacob
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