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Date: 11 Aug 93 00:25:29 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!seas.g
wu.edu!mfeldman@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: question about generics
Message-ID: <1993Aug11.002529.6140@seas.gwu.edu>
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article <EACHUS.93Aug10105310@spectre.mitre.org> eachus@spectre.mitre.org (R
obert I. Eachus) writes:

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>
>  > I.E. I need to be able to say something like
>
>  >  package Generic_Package_Support is
>  >     Viewers : array (1 .. 5) of STRING := ("How", "Would", "I", "Do", "Thi
s?");
>  >  end Generic_Package_Support;
>
>    You apparently need a package which implements varying strings in
>a way that allows you to have arrays of differently sized strings.
>This can be done in Ada by having a type which has a discriminated
>record (with defaults) wrapped in a record with no discriminants.
>I can send you such a package if you don't have one...
>
If I understand this right, we'd better put a warning here to be REAL
careful what the range of the discriminant is, for reasons that we
explain here every couple of months.

To do this ragged array in a more natural way, you'll need 9X.

Mike Feldman