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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Generic Packages
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:50:48 +0300
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote in message
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> "Eyal Ben-gal" <eyalbengal@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > but when i'm trying to make it generic I fail since I'm calling the
abstruct
> > data type functions and the compiler ofcourse can't know how to connect
that
> > to the type I'm using for the SetFirst, SetNext functions.
> >
> > How can I do that ?
>
> You can either pass in all the operations, or you can use a generic
> formal derived type, where the ancestor type has the operations.
>


Eyal, we'll use the seond technique Robert Duff mentions after we learn
about inheritance in Ada.

Ehud Lamm