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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: A hole in Ada type safety
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 12:57:38 -0400
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> It's not a real problem in practice because the use of constrained 
> discriminated types is pretty rare.

And passing an actual parameter to a procedure that can see that actual
as a global is also pretty rare.

- Bob