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Subject: Re: ADA.STRINGS.INDEX_ERROR : a-strunb.adb:782
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On 2018-01-18 17:48, AdaMagica wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2018 15:17:05 UTC+1 schrieb Mehdi Saada:
>> Since universal_integer is meant to be compatible with everything, and since Ada83 is long gone,
>> could "function Length return Integer renames Object_Array'Length" be accepted now ? I don't think it could break any existing code to accept something that wasn't.
> 
> There's still lots of Ada 83 code around in the embedded world.
> And Ada 95 didn't abolish universal_integer.

It could not be abolished, not without proper classes and interfaces of 
integer types.

What one can do is to resolve the issues with universal integers during 
run-time. Either it must be strictly static compile-time or else a 
proper type with named run-time instances and user-defined operations.

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