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Subject: Getting types from a generic container in Ada?
From: EGarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com>
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Date: 2015-07-25T23:08:33-07:00
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I would like to write a generic package that operates on standard container=
s. Such package would need access to various properties of a container, and=
 I would like to get them from the container itself, instead of passing the=
m as parameters for the generic package.  In other words, I would like to w=
rite something like:


generic
   type Container_Type is private;
package My_Package is
   procedure My_Function (Container : in out Container_Type;=20
                          Element   :        Container_Type.Element_Type);
end My_Package;


Is this possible?  Thank you.