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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: String to Integer conversion?
Date: 1998/08/01
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> <<Q for language lawyers: why no predefined instantiation of Fixed_IO for
> type Duration?
> >>
> 
> Because these predefined instantiations are intended for simple student
> use, and one assumes that it is unlikely that students will be mucking
> with duration values!

Fair enough, but it would have been helpful to have a predefined
instantiation, so that everyone (ie working programmers like me) can
share the same one.