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From: Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:16:11 -0500
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Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> "Ioannis Vranos" <ivr@remove.this.grad.com> wrote in message 
> news:1110055473.613245@athnrd02...
> 
>>You can also express constraints in templates. An important thing is this. 
>>Are Ada's generics run-time or compile time?
> 
> Compile time with every Ada compiler I've used.

What do you both of you mean by compile-time?

Any compliant Ada-83 or Ada-95 compiler can have generics
nested inside of subprograms whose parameters vary according
to run-time parameters or computed values from a higher scope.

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Wes Groleau

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