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From: Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>
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Subject: Generic procedures and their parameters
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:51:48 +0200
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Date: 2006-09-06T10:51:48+02:00
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Hi,

I have found the following signature for the sorting procedure:

eneric
    type Index_Type   is (<>);
    type Element_Type is private;
    type Array_Type   is array (Index_Type range <>) of Element_Type;
    with function "<" (Left, Right : in Element_Type) return Boolean is <>;
procedure Sort(To_Sort : in out Array_Type);

My question is: what's the purpose of the third parameter (Array_Type)? 
Isn't it implied by the first two and therefore just redundant?


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