Re: Generic Put Statement

[sal714@rs710.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen A. Leake)]

In article <317742B9.34FC@pitt.edu> Daniel Tomalesky <grim+@pitt.edu> writes:

   I have to write a program where I have to use put statements in a 
   generic package.  Now how do I tell the generic package to use a put 
   statement for integer or float or character.  I tried to add a with 
   procedure put statement in the generic spec but when I wrote the 
   driver I couldn't instantiate the package put for integer. 

   The problem seems to be that put have multiple parameters depending 
   on which one you are using...is there a way around that for 
   generics?  Please mail me an answer if anyone has one.  Thanks

I've had this problem too; I wrote a generic array IO package. The
general solution is to write wrappers for the Text_IO functions, that
take the File and Item args, and use defaults for the rest.

The Ada code I wrote is available via my web page:

http://www710.gsfc.nasa.gov/~sal714/homepage.html

Look there for examples.

Happy instantiating :-)
-- 
Stephen Leake, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
email: Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov