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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 09:21:47 -0400
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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> But why would you want to instantiate a generic package that declares an 
> explicitly tagged type other than as a library unit or in another package?

Because the generic parameters that I want to supply are
the results of some computation? If I'm writing a Charles
algorithm as a procedure, might I not need to instantiate
some generic packages inside the procedure as part of the
work I'm doing?