From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM
	autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,b5ab7c96b188b59e
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-13 09:13:35 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:13:33 -0500
From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
 rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: The "()" operator revisited.
References: <raBMb.9128$Qq.7455@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>
 <dmc700tmurmei4u19nof44803bv19f6d6o@4ax.com>
 <MfVMb.11867$Qq.262@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>
In-Reply-To: <MfVMb.11867$Qq.262@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Organization: KBC Financial Products
Message-ID: <1074014014.10788@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>
Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@aphelion.nyc.kbcfp.com
X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10
X-Trace: 1074014014  19957 204.253.250.10
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4369
Date: 2004-01-13T12:13:33-05:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Frank J. Lhota wrote:
>>More specifically, how would it be matched against a formal
>>generic array parameter?
> 
> That is far more ambitious than this proposal.

You should begin to see why C++ templates don't come with a mechanism
to specify restrictions on parameters, and instead rely on seeing if
usage within the code is legal.