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From: matteo.bordin@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: prohibit certain generic instantiations in Ada 2005
Date: 10 Feb 2006 06:18:30 -0800
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I understand and agree from a semantic point of view. However I would
like to let the compiler perform some additional type checking on the
generic instance. If the generic instantiation is not allowed, then I
what the compiler to produce a compilation error. This makes sense if
you are using generics as a generative tool for metaprogramming. This
kind of things can be done in C++, which has a compilation model
similar to Ada (for what concerns generics/templates).