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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,437103ff8a92c0df X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: generics and records References: <1109532840.857126.234720@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1109532840.857126.234720@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:02:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.254.202.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1109570552 4.254.202.33 (Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:02:32 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:02:32 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8521 Date: 2005-02-28T06:02:32+00:00 List-Id: spambox@volja.net wrote: > in the process of learning Ada, I came to the problem of generics and > records. I want to instantiate a package with a record type: > > generic > type x is private; > package ... > private > type xx is new x; > end ... > > When I want to use it: > > type myrecord is > ... > package somename is new seeabove(myrecord); > > I don't know if this is the correct way. The problem is, how do I make > a component of myrecord available to the package? The formal part of a generic specifies what the generic needs in order to provide its services to its clients. If the generic needs to know about the specific components of a specific record type, then it is probably too tightly bound to the concept of that record type for it to be a formal parameter of the generic. -- Jeff Carter "Have you gone berserk? Can't you see that that man is a ni?" Blazing Saddles 38