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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: Ada 0x: Re: Representation clause
Date: 23 Feb 2001 09:01:48 GMT
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* Martin Dowie wrote:
>James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> quote the RM:
>> Unchecked_Conversion may be used to query the internal codes
>> used for an enumeration type. The attributes of the type, such as Succ,
>> Pred, and Pos, are unaffected by the enumeration_representation_clause.
>> For example, Pos always returns the position number, not the internal
>> integer code that might have been specified in a
>> enumeration_representation_clause.

>Do I spot a possible language extension here?
>How about a 'Underlying_Value attribute?

That would only syntactic shugar, why burden this into the language?