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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:14:22 -0500
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"Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com> wrote in message
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> "Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
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> >  At present, one must wonder about the usefulness of 'Valid.
>
> What's the exegesis for this?

It's superfluous.  If you don't use enumeration representation clauses, the
need for 'Valid disappears.

Don't use enumeration representation clauses.  Use named integer constants
instead.

Just treat enumeration representation clauses as an obsolescent feature of
the language.  Don't use them for any new code.

Don't use enumeration representation clauses.  Don't use 'Valid.