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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Array of Variant Records Question...
Date: 1999/09/14
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In article
<Pine.BSF.4.10.9909132149240.5540-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> In fact, I find it considerably less
> annoying than those cases where I have to explicitly
instantiate a
> generic subprogram when it is fairly obvious what I want.

Note that you gave the writer's point of view here, Your
point would have been stronger if you had said that it
was annoying to read someone else's code in which there is
an explicit instantiation which is obvious.

(I personally do NOT agree that implicit instantiations help
readability)


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