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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: Reflection (was: Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary)
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In article <m3wvem274n.fsf@ns51.infomatch.bc.ca>,
  Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com> wrote:
> Or does instantiating this package within a routine actually work? (I
> don't have an Ada compiler near me at the moment.)

Not only does it work, but older versions of OpenToken encouraged it!
One nice thing this allows it the ability to use subroutine accesses for
subroutines that aren't declared at the library level (eg: within the
declarations of a "main" subprogram).

The problem is that it *doesn't* work if said generic contains a
controlled type declaration (or any other extension of a library-level
declared tagged type). Personally I think this is a major problem with
controlled types.

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T.E.D.

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