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From: Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 05:12:31 -0700 (PDT)
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On 12 Maj, 01:44, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57) <yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr>
wrote:
> Hey Folks! I'm dreaming!
>
> I've just installed the last version of SPARK, started to play a bit with=
 =A0
> its basic principles on a test package, then, just to see what will =A0
> happened, turned the package into a generic. And you know what ? Yes, you=
 =A0
> guess : the SPARK examiner did not returned any error about it and just =
=A0
> displayed the message
>
> =A0 =A0 About to call SetPackageIsGeneric P
> =A0 =A0 ThePackage P
> =A0 =A0 IS GENERIC
>
> I though it has simply drop the whole text, so I've introduced an error o=
n =A0
> purpose in the package, and it has complained about the error (a missing =
=A0
> annotation for a procedure declaration), which is the proof that it did =
=A0
> not drop the package text.
>
> Nice, looks promising.

The planned support for generics was announced at the "Introducing
SPARK 9.0" webinar, see http://www.adacore.com/home/products/gnatpro/webina=
rs/
and click "Introducing SPARK 9.0". The announcement is at 25:30 to
26:50.

- Mark L