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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL, generics
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:36:27 +0200
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> It seems that in GNAT GPL generics are even more buggy than they were in
> 3.15p. The most interesting new "feature" is that you can have spec. and
> body compiled and yet get errors in them upon instantiation, just like in
> C++ templates! 

This isn't specially new, albeit I don't know if it is more frequent. I 
had an experience like this with 3.15p IIRC. Fortunately it was quite 
rare, it's the only time I've seen it.