From: dgibson@snoopy.cis.ohio-state.edu (david scott gibson)
Subject: Q: Dynamically testing type of any variable
Date: 1996/06/03
Date: 1996-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ov0miINN99m@snoopy.cis.ohio-state.edu> (raw)
Hi. Is there any way to determine the type of an arbitrary Ada95
variable at runtime? Inside a generic unit, I'd like to test if a
generic formal has been instantiated with a scalar type, and then if
so, initialize it to some valid representation. It doesn't appear
that the 'Class or 'Valid attributes help much since neither is
defined for all types. Also, I'd prefer not using any exception
trickery to deal with this. Any ideas?
Dave
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1996-06-05 0:00 ` Q: Dynamically testing type of any variable Norman H. Cohen
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