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From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: parameterless generics?
Date: 1996/07/12
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Brian Gilbert wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have a reason to use a generic (package or
> subprogram) without a parameter?  The language (Ada 83 at least)
> seems to allow it, but everytime the generic is instantiated it
> would produce an identical copy.  Comments?

Well, you could do interesting things with a task declared in such
a generic...

It would also be good implementing "objects" using generic packages.
eg:
A program with several different random number generators, all using 
their own seeds.

There are possibilities.

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