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,cea03ed275aa3d28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Question about generics. References: <7Q2qg.812592$084.507058@attbi_s22> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1151973831 12.201.97.176 (Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:43:51 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:43:51 GMT Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:43:51 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5448 Date: 2006-07-04T00:43:51+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > I don't think it is a good argument. The types declared in the visible part > of Xyzzy can be referred as Fizzle.Type_Declared_Inside. Apparently I was not clear. Such types not only can be referred to, they *will* be referred to. The OP intended to declare a type based on a generic parameter. Then he says that if the type is declared by the instantiating unit (to serve as the generic actual parameter) that it will never be referred to. -- Jeff Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 07