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From: David Holm <david@realityrift.com>
Subject: generic type identification
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 01:50:31 GMT
Date: 2003-01-04T01:50:31+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <H5rR9.3971$FF4.246557@newsb.telia.net> (raw)

Hi,
a couple of questions related to generic packages and type specifications.

Lets say I have a package like:
generic
  type New_Type is range <>;
package Example
  procedure Some_Procedure(Item: in New_Type);
end Example;

Is it possible to identify the type of New_Type in the Some_Procedure 
procedure?
I have tried doing stuff like "if New_Type'Range = Integer'Range" etc but 
with little luck.

Another thing that I couldn't find an answer to, is it possible to constrain 
the allowed generic types. Like specifying that New_Type has to be either 
Integer or Float?

The alternative, I guess, would be to not use a generic package and instead 
overload Some_Procedure with those types that I want to be able to use but 
this will clutter the specification file =(.

//David Holm



             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-04  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-04  1:50 David Holm [this message]
2003-01-04  2:04 ` generic type identification chris.danx
2003-01-04  5:39 ` tmoran
2003-01-04 12:39   ` David Holm
2003-01-04 16:13     ` James S. Rogers
2003-01-05  3:28       ` David Holm
2003-01-05 10:03         ` Gautier
2003-01-04 19:27     ` tmoran
2003-01-05  3:25       ` David Holm
2003-01-05  5:42         ` tmoran
2003-01-06 17:56     ` Stephen Leake
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