From: sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!hasan@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (David A. Hasan)
Subject: Re: generic subprogs. in a package
Date: 16 Jan 92 14:14:02 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65132@ut-emx.uucp> (raw)
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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