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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor (Was: why ada is so unpopular ?)
Date: 22 Jan 2004 13:20:46 -0500
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"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> "Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> a �crit dans le message de news:400FC65B.2020006@noplace.com...
> > 1) With it being an enumeral, unless *ALL* implementations use the same
> > ones, I have code that won't compile, right?
> Wrong. If you prefer it as string, you can always write:
>    If Name'Image (System_Name) = "Whatever" then ....

... which is always False, even when System_Name = Whatever.  ;-)

- Bob