From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Specialization of generics
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:23:03 +0300
Date: 2001-06-04T13:23:03+03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ffnvi$qtl$1@news.huji.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 46ba9d66.0106031617.c802df3@posting.google.com
> Now the question: Is it possible to define a generic package taking
> one or more types as generic formal parameters, and then define that
> the generic is instantiated in a different way if the generic formal
> parameters match some condition? One application I could think of
> would be for an image package to handle 1-bit images in a compact way.
>
Short answer is that generic specialization as such doesn't exist in Ada.
I am sure others will give plenty of useful suggestions how to overcome this
problem.
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Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== Me!
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-04 0:17 Specialization of generics John Pitney
2001-06-04 1:04 ` tmoran
2001-06-04 10:23 ` Ehud Lamm [this message]
2001-06-04 14:51 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-04 16:16 ` Ehud Lamm
2001-06-04 17:28 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-06-04 19:21 ` Ehud Lamm
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