From: brashear@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Philip Brashear)
Subject: Re: parameterless generics?
Date: 1996/07/12
Date: 1996-07-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4s5cnp$gq2@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4s48k9$3be$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com
In article <4s48k9$3be$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com>,
Brian Gilbert <71413.1453@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>Does anybody have a reason to use a generic (package or
>subprogram) without a parameter? The language (Ada 83 at least)
>seems to allow it, but everytime the generic is instantiated it
>would produce an identical copy. Comments?
>
>Brian Gilbert
>71413.1453@compuserve.com
Sure:
I've used a generic package to represent ONE OBJECT of an Abstract Data
Type (say Stack). [But I also think that it would have been better to
use a generic type parameter so that I could have made stacks of XX.]
The idea is that the basic structure (the stack body) is in the package
body. If your instantiation is called My_Stack, then you write calls
like "My_Stack.Push (Thing);", "if My_Stack.Is_Empty then", etc. Some
people feel more comfortable with such syntax.
Anywho, it's an example.
Phil Brashear
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-12 0:00 parameterless generics? Brian Gilbert
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Philip Brashear [this message]
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-14 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Chris Papademetrious
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Martin Lorentzon
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