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From: "David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Findlay" <yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada


> On 16/12/02 18:38, in article 3DFE1D97.6020109@cogeco.ca, "Warren W. Gay
> VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > I would suggest one more small point WRT to:
> > 
> > type day_name_type is (mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun);
> > 
> > Add a representation clause to guarantee that the values
> > start with sun => 0, mon => 1 etc.  For some code, it is
> > much easier to work with the day of the week in the form
> > of a number.
> 
> I'm puzzled by this advice.
> 
> day_name_type'Pos(mon) .. day_name_type'Pos(sun)
> 
> is necessarily 0 .. 6, is it not?
> 
Yes, the _pos_ attribute is defined by the language as you state,
but Warren is looking to have the _representation_ specified in
the package specification.  This insures that instantiations of
Ada.Unchecked_Conversion between day_name_type and
integer types produce specified results.

> -- 
> Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")
> 
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