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Subject: Re: Generic package parameters not externally visible : what's the
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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).