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Date: 10 Aug 93 15:53:10 GMT
From: eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa  (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: question about generics
Message-ID: <EACHUS.93Aug10105310@spectre.mitre.org>
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In article <9308091429.aa12174@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kanderso@mabillon.ICS.UCI.EDU
 (Kenneth Anderson) writes:

  > I need a generic package to do some initialization based on an array of
  > strings.

  > I.E. I need to be able to say something like

  >  package Generic_Package_Support is
  >     Viewers : array (1 .. 5) of STRING := ("How", "Would", "I", "Do", "This
?");
  >  end Generic_Package_Support;

    You apparently need a package which implements varying strings in
a way that allows you to have arrays of differently sized strings.
This can be done in Ada by having a type which has a discriminated
record (with defaults) wrapped in a record with no discriminants.
I can send you such a package if you don't have one...

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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