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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:48:24 +0100
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Dmitry A. Kazakov schrieb:

> Not very useful, but in other cases reflection could be very interesting.
> For example, in generics:
> 
>    generic
>       type T is array; -- Only this
>    package ... is
>       -- The [first] array index type would be T'Index (1)
>       -- The array element type would be T'Element etc
> 

I'm probably dense.  Is there a difference to what we have
now other than the unknown number of indexes of the array
type above?

   generic
       type T_Index is (<>);
       type T_Element is private;
       type T is array (T_Index range <>) of T_Element;
   package ... is