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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:28:13 +0100
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>  What's the use of a variation over
>> a type set if you are unable to specify an element of the set?
> 
> I forgot to add that an additional benefit of generics is
> type-safety, enforced at compile-time. Such as the Unit code.

Hey, in Ada everything is type-safe! (:-))

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