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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:23:31 -0400
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On 2010-07-21 08:40, Phil Thornley wrote:

> There are occasional hints about generics, and I guess that the
> pressure for these is increasing. OTOH I know that some work on this
> had already been done five years ago, so I'm not holding my breath.

I attended a webinar on SPARK Pro 9.0 and a question about generics was
asked there. The answer was, "we are actively working on it, but I can't
give a specific release date or version." Of course it isn't completely
clear just what "actively working on it" means. Still, it sounds
encouraging.

Perhaps the work on the Hi-Lite project is helping to drive generics
support in SPARK. That's just wild speculation.

Peter