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On 11.10.12 22:25, kevin andrew wrote:
>
> Thanks Adam,
> Your solution is the workaround I had used. Ada is so strongly type
> cast I didn't think I would be able to do what I wanted.
> FYI, you can do this with C++ template classes,

You can't, really. It hinges on char and int matching. Try this:

struct T {};

int main()
{
    newClass<int> intClass;
    newClass<T> charClass;
  ...
}