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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Creating several types from a base type and conversion
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:37:59 +0000
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Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:

>    Type Word is range 0..2**30-1
>     with Size => 30;
>
> this allows you to also do something like this:
>   Function Convert( Data : Integer ) return Word
>     with Inline, Pre => Data in Integer(Word'First)..Integer(Word'Last);

Not sure what advantage this would give over just Word (<integer>)