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Date: 16 Jan 92 14:14:02 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!hasan@hplabs.hpl.hp.com  (David A. Hasan)
Subject: Re: generic subprogs. in a package
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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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