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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Constant record components
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>I can say that the notion that something declared "constant" could in fact
>be assigned to in some scope is rather disgusting.
   But it's less disgusting to say
type r is record
  fixed : integer range 5 .. 5 := 5;
  stuff : ...
Though I did once fail to use a rep spec on such a record and ObjectAda
cleverly optimized away storage for that record component.