Re: urgent question - generics

[shoshanister@gmail.com]

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On Sep 3, 4:41 pm, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote:
> shoshanis...@gmail.com a écrit :
>
> > So, perhaps you think you are very clever, but you don't know me, and
> > you don't know if I'm lazy or not. So if you don't want to help, then
> > just don't and keep your smart remarks to your self.
>
> Sorry it was not my intent. As others have said it, it is a long
> tradition on comp.lang.ada to help when technical informations or
> "proof" of actual research is given. The answer to most of us in cla is
> trivial so it is hard to tell that it was not by laziness that it was
> not understood :)
>
> I hope you'll have a good exam. Now back to your question:
>
> > I want to create a generic function that receives a generic procedure
> > (without any parameters) as a parameter.
>
>    generic
>       procedure Proc;
>    function Func (P1 : in Positive) return String;
>
> Now frankly I can't figure out what would be the point of Proc as it
> won't be able to access/use Func parameters (kind of callback to update
> something maybe...). But if this is the actual question you got the answer.
>
> Pascal.
>
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Thanks pascal, but this is not what I meant. This is too easy for me
as well.
I think that Anon understood my question better. To create a generic
function that receives a procedure as a parameter..
Now it's just a general knowledge question ;-)