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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 09:46:28 +0200
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On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:38:21 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:25:59 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:
>>> I've never understood the objection to "all this instantiating every  
>>> where".
>>> How much effort is a line or three of boilerplate code?
>>
>> Geometrically exploding...
> As this is about genericity, I would like to understand: what kind of  
> curve is one “Geometrically exploding” ?

= exponentially

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_progression

> I remember in the past (past year I think), we talked around generics  
> hierarchy and generic packages as formal parameters. You had warned about  
> possible complexity explosion in this area: is this about the same ?

Yep. Once generic always generic. Two generics make four instantiations.
And the mill starts milling...

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de