From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard missing a 'Negative' subtype?... Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 11:14:32 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: References: <7b66c649-3796-41ea-b734-a2b14d2dbac3@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: XCN1bGU60KrUQBjZdeal8w.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17182 Date: 2013-09-14T11:14:32+02:00 List-Id: On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 01:49:08 -0700 (PDT), Martin wrote: > Why is there no "Negative" predefined subtype in package Standard?... Because it is not needed. Positive is used in the definition of String. > I would have thought this would fit nicely with 'Natural' and 'Positive'. > Obviously not needed as often as those two, but when I finally did need > it, it wasn't there! You can always define it yourself. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de