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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> There are 50 shades of mess. Ada's generics try to introduce some
> weakly-typed contracts on the formal generic parameters, where C++
> templates go completely untyped, but mess is always mess. You cannot
> make a decent language out of macro processor.

I don't understand what you're getting at.  Are Ada generics implemented
with a macro processor?  C++ templates amount to that, but there are
other, better ways to implement generics.