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From: Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch (Mats Weber)
Subject: Re: parameterless generics?
Date: 1996/07/22
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Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00
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>Such generics are often very useful, and very common in Ada code. You
>missed one critical point. Each instantiation gets its own set of
>package level variables.
>
>For example a random number generic could read
>
>generic
>function random return float;
>
>and each instance would have a separate seed

I think you need a package to accomplish this.