From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cc1e953080a23a59 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: christoph.grein@eurocopter.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generic formals - meanings and Wikibook suggestion Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 03:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <75375a09-0904-4e95-a406-8d1bb8b6227f@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.156.44.161 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1207562919 7509 127.0.0.1 (7 Apr 2008 10:08:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.156.44.161; posting-account=rmHyLAoAAADSQmMWJF0a_815Fdd96RDf User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 webwasher (Webwasher 6.6.3.3150) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20860 Date: 2008-04-07T03:08:38-07:00 List-Id: type T is private; Any definite non-private type, i.e. a type that allows assignment and declaration of objects without initial expression. type T (<>) is private; Much like the above, but object declaration require an initial expression because the type may be indefinite. BTW: The table is incomplete for Ada 2005: interfaces are missing. I think there should be separate tables for formal private and derived types (definite and indefinite) lest the table become too confusing.