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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> This means that if you try to implement Ada using displays,
 > generics sometimes require passing multiple displays as
> implicit parameters.

Is this any different than if the subprogram was not generic?
That is, suppose I just wrote a subprogram instead of an
instantiation:
     type Element_Array is array(Integer range <>) of Element;
     procedure Sort(EA: in out Element_Array) is
     begin
         -- uses EA(i) > EA(j)
     end
and then I pass a pointer to Sort to another procedure.
Doesn't the same sort of thing have to be done as for the
generic?