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From: hreba <hreba@terra.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Generic Library Units?
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:46:51 -0300
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On 10/16/2014 04:54 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
> hreba <hreba@terra.com.br> writes:
>
>> As I have dozens of subprogram parameters, I packed them (together
>> with the types) into a package parameter GuiGtk and it worked.
>
> This is a "signature package", see Ada 2005 Rationale 12.6[1].
>
> [1] http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/95rat/rat95html/rat95-p2-12.html#6
>

Thanks for the hint. My book is about Ada95, so I wasn't aware of that.

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