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Subject: Re: Redefining "in" "operator"
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On 02/05/2018 05:26 PM, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
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> Are there special reasons not to allow something like that? I think "in" is not 
> an operator in the Ada RM sense but now I'm curious why the special treatment.

The right side of "[not] in" is a subtype. Ada does not allow operators to have 
operands that are subtypes.

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Jeff Carter
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