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On 26-Oct-14 11:46, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> + Unsigned types:
>> >
>> >   Something I use quite a lot and find it hard to imagine managing
>> >   without.  Also, how would one interface with C et al. without unsigned
>> >   types?
>> >
> If anything, unsigned integers should be the default integer type and
> you should need to ask for a signed integer in the code.

If anything Ada should have disconnected "signed v. unsigned" and 
"cyclic v. over-/under-flow" instead of having modular-integers.