From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: null exclusion and generics
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:51:59 +0200
Date: 2006-10-19T14:49:50+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161262319.24061.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
If a generic formal type is private, I can supply a
null excluding subtype for the type parameter.
A generic formal private type means assignment is possible.
Declarations of objects of the null excluding
actual inside the generic need explicit initialization,
though.
generic
type T is private;
procedure Nop(source: in T);
procedure Nop(source: in T) is
tmp: T; -- no known way to initialize
begin
tmp := source;
end Nop;
Can I excpect, then, that Ada.Containers.* will typically
not be usable with null excluding subtypes? (Because an
implementation will likely declare local variables without
knowing how to initialize them.)
Is it a possible enhancement to add something like
generic
type T is private;
Default_Value: ...; -- or a subprogram, or ...
...
-- Georg
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2006-10-19 12:51 Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2006-10-19 13:06 ` null exclusion and generics Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-19 20:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-10-20 7:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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