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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <3BE18A23.BC921FA9@boeing.com>, Jeffrey Carter says...
>
>PragmARC.List_Unbounded_Unprotected. It imports a limited private formal
>and an Assign procedure, and provides a generic Sort procedure that
>imports "<". If you cannot define a meaningful "<" for your Element
>type, or do not need sorting, you don't instantiate the Sort procedure.
>Note that "=" is not needed for sorting.


I like that solution. The extra complexity is only there for people who want the
extra functionality.

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