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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Comparing Access Types
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:00:15 -0500
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Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not hugely in disagreement here, but I am curious as to why it doesn't
> make sense.

What would it mean?  If X /= Y, then X < Y returns either True
or False arbitrarily?  That could work, but it doesn't seem all
that useful.

If a garbage collector is moving things around in memory,
then it would be hard to implement efficiently.

> For debugging purposes, I do wish there was a way for me to get a printable
> unique value for access types.

Unchecked convert to type Integer_Address, then use 'Image.

- Bob