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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Specialization of generics
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:23:03 +0300
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> 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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