Re: Package Instances???

["Marc A. Criley" <mcqada95@earthlink.net>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> Marin David Condic wrote:
> > Sounds like you're trying to treat a package as if it was a C++ class and
> > you're trying to create a new instance of it because it presumably holds a
> > set of variables you want to duplicate? First, as you discovered, you can't
> > do that. Second, it isn't really the right idiom for Ada.
> 
> Wouldn't it work by just making the package generic?

I got a clear impression from the original posting that he was thinking
that packages were very much like classes, which is what his example
strongly suggested.  So I think the postings about generics were
answering a question that wasn't being asked :-)

Marc A. Criley
Consultant
Quadrus Corporation
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