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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Generics???
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 21:54:21 +0300
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James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> Short answer: You can't. It would be a violation of Ada's strong
> typing.
>

True enough.
However, you can decalre the type "private" and import operations:
generic
   type T is private;
  with function "+"(A,B:T) return T is <>;


and than pass the correct routines when instantiating. With the "is <>"
syntax you don't even have to explicitly pass the routines.

Another solution  would be to use a generic signature package.


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