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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Specialization of generics
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> OK, I tried to sit on my hands, but I can't resist. Along these lines, you
> can look at
>
>
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/ada/126551/p338-shen/#indterms
>
> -- Brian

It is a nice piece of work. Alas, it seems there are no newer works along
these lines.
I agree with you sentiments. In fact I think that auto-instantiation is a
nice way explore several other things. As I mention in my Ada-Europe'2001
paper, you might use auto-instantiation of signature packages to allow
sepcifying interface relations more abstractly than is currently done in
Ada.

(If someone wants to pursue this further, let me know!)

--
Ehud Lamm   mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <==  Me!