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Subject: Re: Task interface and entries with aliased parameters
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> Sharing interfaces *sounds* nice, but it's impossible in practice because in 
> almost all circumstances you need parameters of different types for 
> different "instances" ("instances" not in the Ada sense). Think container 
> interfaces, for example - the element type is almost always different.

Java has generics for that now.