From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY, TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,27b7b39155b8a0d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-28 13:29:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: Generics not overloadable Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:29:25 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:29:25 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17136 Date: 2001-11-28T21:29:25+00:00 List-Id: In article , Mark Lundquist says... > >I posted this earlier today, but I never saw the post show up, so maybe it >went into the bit-bucket for some reason. Here it is again just in case... I for one did see it. I just don't have good answers for you. Our language lawyers seem to be on vacation today. :-) >Generic units cannot be overloaded. > >That is a bother. All I can say is that this is a nit that's been with Ada since the '83 days. It annoyed me too when I discovered it, but that was back in '89. By now its just something I intuitively code around. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.