From: "Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Generic package parameters not externally visible : what's the rational ?
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:10:38 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-10-29T17:10:38-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ec09aab-070a-48b9-a4ab-d18760d02bb3@v30g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hcd6jk$met$1@munin.nbi.dk
On 29 oct, 23:56, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> I don't have time to give you a detailed reply, sorry. (Well, not unless you
> want to hire me for consulting. :-)
Don't mind about time, I can understand
If could ask you for consulting, I enjoy to do, but unluckily, I'm
jobless, ... so ...
any I feel honored you've take some time to answer ;)
> Typically, when I've had to compose generics, I will nest an instantiation
> of one inside the other. (That's pretty much all you could do in Ada 83,
> after all.) Most of the time, that works fine, and the operations in the
> instance can be used directly or re-exported with renames as needed.
I was thinking about such a thing, it was planned, but I still not
tried it, because I was busy at thinking about what the best naming
conventions are (another topic).
> That's pretty cynical. Most of time, once you get your generic working,
> you hardly every touch it again. Besides, you could make the above
> statement for almost any Ada (or other programming language) code
> when it is reused.
I also feel better after that, the assertion you replied to with these
words, was also a bit frightening to me (I was thinking it was a bit
too much, but was not sure after all, as I know there are probably a
lot of things I do not know).
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2009-10-26 8:58 Generic package parameters not externally visible : what's the rational ? Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-26 11:05 ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-10-26 15:02 ` Robert A Duff
2009-10-27 1:06 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-26 14:56 ` Robert A Duff
2009-10-27 3:03 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-27 21:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-27 21:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-27 22:03 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-27 22:19 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-28 19:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-29 12:18 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-29 22:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-30 0:10 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) [this message]
2009-10-27 22:04 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-27 23:37 ` Robert A Duff
2009-10-27 23:41 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-27 23:34 ` Robert A Duff
2009-10-28 2:19 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-28 19:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-29 7:34 ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-29 12:21 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-29 13:10 ` AdaMagica
2009-10-29 15:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-10-29 19:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-29 20:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-10-30 10:30 ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-30 17:53 ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-10-31 2:10 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-30 5:19 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-28 9:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-28 19:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-29 8:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-29 23:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-30 8:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-30 10:25 ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-30 19:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-31 2:06 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31 9:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-03 8:25 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-03 9:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-05 10:38 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-05 11:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-05 12:16 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-05 14:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-06 12:19 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-06 13:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-31 2:08 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31 12:44 ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-01 11:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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