From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-12 19:57:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC7AD82.2A0CCCD4@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why not References: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> <9pvv3t$ves$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3BC5D730.DA950CC7@boeing.com> <9q4pa7$1ad$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BC6ACC8.23EF21BC@free.fr> <3BC71F54.1FFE78FA@boeing.com> <1KGx7.26476$ev2.35117@www.newsranger.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 02:57:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.208.197 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1002941837 209.86.208.197 (Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:57:17 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:57:17 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:53:34 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14445 Date: 2001-10-13T02:57:17+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > Again, this is for the *first* time you try to use something. You don't even > need to do that, if you can find someone else's instantiation code to clone. > After that, its just a matter of making the proper "magic incantation" to > instantiate your generics, and you are good to go. Again, magic incantations may be OK if you're a C++ hacker, but we Ada software engineers avoid them. Since the same effect can be obtained without investing hours of effort or parroting magic incantations using other component libraries, I can see no justification for this level of complexity. -- Jeff Carter "Hello! Smelly English K...niggets." Monty Python & the Holy Grail