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> "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message 
>> Every C++ template instantiation is done, and therefore checked,
>> at compile-time. It's Ada that has run-time instantiation (with
>> compile-time checking).

adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> As you note, the checking is done at compile-time in Ada.  [...]

By the way, Hyman's "It's Ada that has run-time instantiation" is misleading, 
since it could be interpreted that Ada instantiations are systematically done 
at run-time, which is wrong...
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