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5.12 Subrange types

Description

Subrange types define a contiguous subset of the values of an ordinal type. This ordinal type is known as the subrange type's host type and the values of a subrange type have the same type as its host type.

Example

Here are some examples of subrange types:

   -100..+100
   true..true
   'a'..'z'

Syntax

The syntax for defining new subrange types is give below:

(NOTE: for clarity some parts of the syntax are omitted, see Irie Pascal Grammar for the full syntax):

   subrange-type = constant '..' constant

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