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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Marin David Condic wrote in message ...
>You know the number should never be negative and Natural'Last is
probably big
>enough for any collection of stuff in memory.

Not necessarily. I know at least one Ada compiler that has type Integer
as 16-bits on all targets (so all targets have the same memory layout).

If you care about the range, always use a user-defined type. Certainly
in this case, you'll need a type with a longer range than 32767.

            Randy.