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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/25
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In article <JRNnTAAOCmy0EwYL@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>, Martin M Dowie
<martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>'Pred on a float? shurely shome mishtake...
>
>how about something like -
>
>subtype A_Heading is Ownship_Heading_Base range 0.0 .. 360.0;
>
>subtype Ownship_Heading is A_Heading
>  range A_Heading'first .. A_Heading'Last - A_Heading'Small;

No mistake.  These attributes were added to Ada 95 for precisely this reason.

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