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From: Andrew Shvets <andrew.shvets@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Creating a generic package with and setting its type to that of a record
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:15:30 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-09-27T19:15:30-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e22a46da-f436-490f-890b-385a9670635e@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nsf8ng$dlb$1@dont-email.me>

On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 10:09:01 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 09/27/2016 06:02 PM, Andrew Shvets wrote:
> > Lets say I have this code:
> > 
> > 
> > generic
> >   type Custom_Record_Type is <>; 
> > package Gener is
> >   ...
> > 
> > 
> > What I'd like to do is set the type to that of a record (which has some overloaded operators, such as >, < and =.)  Can this be done?  If so, how?
> 
> This is an invalid generic formal type definition, so you can't do anything with it.
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Carter
> "I did not rob a bank. If I'd robbed a bank, everything
> would be great. I tried to rob a bank, is what happened,
> and they got me."
> Take the Money and Run
> 139

So if I have this record in another package and it works, I can't use it in my code example?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-28  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-28  1:02 Creating a generic package with and setting its type to that of a record Andrew Shvets
2016-09-28  2:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-09-28  2:15   ` Andrew Shvets [this message]
2016-09-28  6:15 ` Simon Wright
2016-09-28 21:38   ` Randy Brukardt
2016-09-29  7:57     ` Simon Wright
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