generic subprogs. in a package

generic subprogs. in a package

[David A. Hasan]

OK, I give up.  I can't figure out why the DEC compiler is rejecting
the following package spec.  Can anyone point out the obvious thing
I must be overlooking?


PACKAGE test IS
  PROCEDURE f;
  FUNCTION f RETURN Integer;

  GENERIC 
    n : Boolean;
  FUNCTION f RETURN Integer;
END test;


---DEC compiler diagnostics:


    6 	  GENERIC 
..........1
%ADAC-E-REDECLERR, (1) Illegal redeclaration of procedure specification f at 
        line 2 [LRM 8.3(17)]


--David A. Hasan
--  Center for Space Research
--  University of Texas at Austin

Re: generic subprogs. in a package

[David A. Hasan]

In article <65114@ut-emx.uucp> hasan@emx.utexas.edu (David A. Hasan) writes:
>I can't figure out why the DEC compiler is rejecting

>PACKAGE test IS
>  PROCEDURE f;
...
>  GENERIC 
>    n : Boolean;
>  FUNCTION f RETURN Integer;
>END test;
>
>    6 	  GENERIC 
>..........1
>%ADAC-E-REDECLERR, (1) Illegal redeclaration of procedure specification f at 


My question was answered by mail.  The answer is that generics
can't be overloaded, although knowing that I must say that the
compiler error message is somewhat misleading.

Out of curiosity, is there a relatively simple explanation for
this constraint on generics?

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