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: 103376,1dd28d5040ded1f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-08 05:46:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD91E31.1060004@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational References: <3CD88FBD.4070706@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 12:46:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1020861967 68.12.51.201 (Wed, 08 May 2002 08:46:07 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 08:46:07 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23717 Date: 2002-05-08T12:46:07+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > Well, in article <3CD85124.8070005@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen wrote: > >>Which makes me think - in the recent specifications for containers >>that were posted here, do the generics have a parameter for the >>type used to count the members of the container? Otherwise when I >>ask my LinkedListOfApples and my LinkedListOfCartPushers how many >>things each contains I'll have to convert the result, and then I >>could make the same mistake that a C++ programmer would. I'm not sure I understand either the question or the suppossed problem. The only way you could possibly get different types back for a size operation would be if there *were* such a generic parameter.