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From: "REH" <spamjunk@stny.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: generics in Ada 83
Date: 13 Sep 2005 09:25:39 -0700
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> REH wrote:
>
> > generic
> >     type X is private;
> >     with procedure Y(Z : in X);
> > package Foo;
> >
> > I want to define a default for Y, but how can I without knowing X?
>
> Can you make generic stubs?

Can you do that in '83?  I tried but I kept getting compiler errors.