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Peter Amey schrieb:
> The only surprise to me is that the error occurs at run-time; I would expect
>  a compiler to spot the static out-of-range value during compilation.

That is because it is a legal program, which must be accepted by the compiler. A
helpful compiler would spot the problem and output a warning that
Constraint_Error will be raised.

>
> Peter

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