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From: blaak@mda.ca (Ray Blaak)
Subject: Re: C++ templates vs. Ada generics?
Date: 1996/06/20
Date: 1996-06-20T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4qbtid$bsq@map.mda.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4qa7or$qlm@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU


Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> writes:

>[...] does anyone have any examples of what can be
>achieved in C++ templates, but not Ada generics?

On the fly instantiations (i.e. as a parameter to a function). Technically this
does not provide any extra ability, but it can be wonderfully succinct,
especially for one-time uses of the instantiation.

Cheers,
Ray Blaak




  reply	other threads:[~1996-06-20  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-06-20  0:00 C++ templates vs. Ada generics? Dale Stanbrough
1996-06-20  0:00 ` Ray Blaak [this message]
1996-06-20  0:00   ` David Weller
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