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On 1/5/21 6:24 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
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> Alternatively, thinking about my original suggestion, I guess the modern
> Ada way would be to allow an aspect along the lines of:
> subtype Mono_String is String with First => 1;

You can get the effect of this with a predicate, but slices won't slide to match.

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