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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 21:33:32 +0200
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On 2017-10-04 21:21, reinert wrote:

> My compiler (gnat on debian) says "clock + 20" means 20 seconds
> into the future :-)  Assuming I have not misunderstood.

You can add Duration to Time, and get Time back. Then it must be this:

    T : Time := Clock + 20.0; -- OK, 20.0 is Duration, seconds

But this is illegal:

    T : Time := Clock + 20; -- 20 is integer literal

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