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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Arrays in Ada 2012
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:55:48 -0500
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"Anatoly Chernyshev" <achernyshev@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 2 (to Randy): Would it be more convenient to declare a constant 'one' in 
> the package, e.g.
> ll1: constant long_long_integer:=Long_Long_Integer'Size/Storage_Unit;
> and use it throughout when dealing with long_long_integers? So that, to 
> stay on the bright side,
> every l_l_int operation would be brought into error-proof shape by 
> multiplying by this constant:
> Current:=ll1*(current+1);

A constant might make sense if you use it often enough, but PLEASE give it a 
reasonable name. Something like "Component_Size" seems to make sense.

It wouldn't make sense in the pseudo-code, as that is what the compiler is 
going to generate and the compiler is going to generate everything using 
calculated values. (There's no named constants in machine code!)

                                      Randy.