"Dr. Joachim Schr�er" writes: > To be serious: By sovereignly ignoring language standards, Rational seems to > intentionally bring some C++ habits to the Ada world. That's not fair. In Ada 83, there *was* no standard way to do unsigned integers, so it's not surprising that Rational invented one. Now, of course, they have to keep supporting it, for upward compatibility. - Bob -- Change robert to bob to get my real email address. Sorry.