Re: Generic formal access types

Robert A Duff wrote:
> tmoran@acm.org writes:
> 
> 
>>Why not
>> declare
>>     package Instance is new Generic_Package (Integer);
>>     subtype Ptr is Instance.Node_Content_Ptr;
>>     P : Ptr;
> 
> 
> That works only if you want to declare the pointer type at the same
> place where the instantiation is.  In many cases, you don't.  For this
> reason, it's almost always better to pass the pointer type into
> generics.

   In my case, "Ptr" is already defined before the instantiation of the 
package and I should not change its definition.

   But again, I did not think of that possibility, so thanks for the 
suggestion.

Rodrigo