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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: ANN: Ada 2005 Math Extensions, 20100810 release
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:48:53 +0200
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:31:30 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> You mean the _G suffis became a somewhat de-facto standard ?

I meant the prefix Generic_. However the standard has no clear policy on
that:

Ada.Text_IO.Integer_IO
Ada.Containers.Doubly_Linked_Lists
Ada.Numerics.Generic_Complex_Arrays

>> Sometimes you need to "rename" formal types as well:
>>
>> generic
>>    type Foo is ...
>> package Generic_S is
>>    subtype Foo_Of is Foo; -- What a mess!
> 
> We already talked about these cases. Do you remember the thread's title ?  
> (I would like to get it back to read it again).

I think it popped up more than once.

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