Re: pb with child units

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3A966E4D.778BE01E@irit.fr>, Veronique GAILDRAT says...
>
>I try to call a subprogram from a brother unit :
>generic
>package liste_dyn_gen_p.liste_simple_p is
>	procedure insererEnTete (le : in out Liste; i : Item);
..
>with liste_dyn_gen_p.liste_simple_p;
>
>package body liste_dyn_gen_p.liste_dyn_triee_p is
>	procedure inserer (le : in out Liste; e : Item) is
>	begin
>----> error ---->	liste_dyn_gen_p.liste_simple_p.insererEnTete(le, e);
>	invalid prefix in selected component "liste_simple_p"
>
>but liste_simple_p is a child unit of liste_dyn_gen_p !

No, its not. Its a child unit of an *instantiation* of liste_dyn_gen_p. You
can't make a call to a generic, only to an *instantiation* of one. You could
make an instantiation of liste_simple_p in the body of liste_dyn_triee_p, but
that's probably not what you want because that instantiation would be different
than any others you might have outside of liste_dyn_triee_p. If you want access
to a routine in a *particular* instantiation of a generic package that is not
your package's ancestor, you will have to have it (the routine or the package)
supplied as a generic parameter to your package.





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