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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Container reqs
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Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote:
 
: I wholeheartedly agree. Wright's posting here a few days ago of the
: sequence of instantiations needed to obtain a simple structure with the
: Booch components clearly indicates that they fail this requirement.
 
I can't see why in _Ada_ this is a problem. You have to
laboriously write things up in all sorts of unexpected places,
unexpected to the newcommers at least. Like certain arrays in a
record: you need to declare a type first.  That is, multilevel
instantiation, considered an _implementation detail_, is quite
in the Ada spirit from that point of view. At least to me.

(If I wanted nice data structures almost for free, I might as well chose
a language that has them :-)

Georg