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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: What is wrong here? (Generic and controlled types)
Date: 2000/04/03
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In article <8caebe$6us$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:

> I personally feel Ada really falls on its face here. The only
> time I ever felt I needed to create a controlled type was in
> this context.

It is almost always possible to work around this trivially by
simply including a controlled component in the type instead
of making the entire type controlled.

P.S. it is hard to see how the GNAT message could be any
clearer, suggestions welcome!



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