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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: newbie question
Date: 1999/03/19
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In article <36F039F8.275E7145@hknet.com>,
  Kenneth Lee <klch@hknet.com> wrote:
> just switched to Ada a few days.
> can someone show me how can i have a universal sort
> routine
> to sort arrays of integer and float? or even strings?
> i tried to implement such a generic unit, but failed coz
> i'm really new to Ada :P

Have a look at g-busorg.ads/b and g-busora.ads/b in the
GNAT library, to see two ways of achieving this kind of
genericity.

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