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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Do people who use Ada also use ocaml or F#?
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* Dmitry A. Kazakov:

>> Are generics really non-testable?
>
> How do you execute a generic body?

You could use something like QuickCheck.  However, Ada generics tend
to be higher-order constructs, and those are always more difficult to
test.  But I'm sure most people still prefer them over the
alternatives (such as manual cut-and-paste, preprocessors and code
generators, and so on).