From: st92j0gw@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Chris Papademetrious)
Subject: Re: parameterless generics?
Date: 1996/07/15
Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4sdou6$q1t@noc2.drexel.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 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?
I believe if you create a child library of a generic package (pardon
my butchering of the terminology, I'm new to Ada 95), the child itself
must also be generic. Oftentimes, the child won't need a generic
parameter of its own, only needing that of its parent, in which case
you'd get the interesting construct:
generic
package Blah is...
This is covered in "Programming in Ada 95" by John Barnes, page 390.
>Brian Gilbert
>71413.1453@compuserve.com
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Chris Papademetrious
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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
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 [this message]
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Martin Lorentzon
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