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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: List Container Straw Man
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:24:40 +0200
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> Well, my library (http://users.erols.com/leakstan/Stephe/Ada/sal.html)
> requires three or four instantiations to get a list, and I don't find
> that 'onerous'. But others do, particularly students. So I think it is
> worth making the attempt to come up with a useful list package that
> only requires one instantiation.
>

Since we seem to be discussing various Ada features...
I was always ready to defend Ada's lack of automatic instnatiation, but I
seem to be loosing me resovle.
Maybe some one can re-convince me ;-)

For the purposes discussed here, I would be happy with a solution allowing
me to create partial instantaions, so that only the top level would need to
be instantiated by the user.
(This is close to "template specialization", I think, but not exactly the
same thing).
Is there any elegant idiom for doing this?
(If I am not clear, I'll try to post an example).

Ehud