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Grein, Christoph wrote:
> This is also easy in Ada.

No, it is not. Of your referenced approaches, only Macks adopts
the spirit of the C++ solution, in which all unit operations are
checked at compile-time, and unit objects have no space overhead.
And Macks requires a seperate processing step to generate the
Ada code, and furthermore results in a combinatorial explosion
of declarations.