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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:

> I would suggest one more small point WRT to:
> 
> type day_name_type is (mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun);

This (and month_name_type) seems very English and abbreviated.

> Add a representation clause to guarantee that the values
> start with sun => 0, mon => 1 etc.  For some code, it is
> much easier to work with the day of the week in the form
> of a number.

I would have thought the chance of this being standardised was very
close to zero! given 'Pos.