Re: Package instance???

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

"Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> And then you can define:
>
>   p1 is new My_Package;
>   p2 is new My_Package;
>
Syntax check: Should be "package p1 is new My_Package;" - but see below.


> Which will create two instances of a My_Package.
> I don't know your background, but if you have C++ for comparison a generic
> in Ada is kind of like a template in C++, not an object.
>
I strongly suspect from the way the question was stated that Mr. Yates
(first or last name?) was trying to duplicate what can be done with a C++
class - that is, have a bunch of variables bundled together with some
operations and make several instances of the set of variables. While, yes,
you *can* get a similar effect using generics - that doesn't seem to be what
is being called for. I'd suggest that generics best be left out of it for
the time being because its a little tricky for a newbie.

It would help if we got a little better description of what the desired
behavior is so we can suggest the proper Ada idiom for getting there.

MDC
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