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Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote:

>> The set of locales may grow. ‘Last etc. would change.
> 
> Why would you use 'Last or 'Succ on languages? 

No type can be exempt from general Ada semantics.
That’s like asking why I would use 13 for Ada in the USA?


> Using enumerations also means that you can leverage discriminated
> records, making a solid foundation for true multilingual applications:
> 

It might be realistic to assume a set of languages 
that a program supports. The set might or might
not be a proper subtype.
In any case, I’d define a type that enumerates the
supported languages and “link” it to locales. The type 
thus provides decoupling in place of dependence
on an ever changing library type.