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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Generic package with dynamic subprogram name?
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:08:55 -0400
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Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com> writes:

> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:33:11 -0400, Stephen Leake
> <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
>
>>Marek Janukowicz <marek@janukowicz.net> writes:
>
>>> I understand things I ask about in the subject are most likely not possible, 
>>> but is there any other way to achieve what I want? 
>>
>>Renames was suggested. Writing all of those can get tedious, and
>>probably defeats the purpose of the generic. 
>>
>>Using an ASIS application to generate code would be another way. 
>
> Any pointers (uh, references) where to learn ASIS for this purpose?
> I've always understood ASIS as being used to analyze Ada, not generate it...
>
> If there is a tutorial somewhere using ASIS to generate co... <cough> source
> program text, I'd be interested to see it.

I'm not aware of any tutorials.

gnatstub (included in all GNAT distributions) is a small ASIS
application that can serve as a good starting point.

auto_text_io (which I wrote)
(http://www.stephe-leake.org/ada/auto_text_io.html) is a larger example.

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-- Stephe