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From: scott@shuksan.UUCP (Scott Moody)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: enumeration literal/internal codes query
Summary: Agree, should be cleaner way
Message-ID: <1074@shuksan.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 17:03:01 GMT
References: <1494@wayback.UUCP> <1499@wayback.UUCP>
Organization: The Boeing Co., BAC MMST, Seattle, WA
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> It seems to me that retrieving the internal codes being used to store an
> object, whether specified by the programmer or assigned by the
> implementation, should be provided for directly by a language feature
> (such as an attribute).
>   - Arny Engelson
 
I too have run into all of the same problems that you have mentioned. The 'pos
doesn't work which leaves the Unchecked Conversion method. I would also
think that the language should provide some better (cleaner) method
of retrieving that value; especially since the language provides a
clean method of describing those values (using rep specs).