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"Ioannis Vranos" <ivr@remove.this.grad.com> wrote in message 
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> You can also express constraints in templates. An important thing is this. 
> Are Ada's generics run-time or compile time?

Compile time with every Ada compiler I've used.

> It looks like they are run-time, and in C++ you can do all the above. 
> Actually Ada's compilers are probably written in C++.

GNAT is written in Ada.