Re: urgent question - generics

[anon@anon.org (anon)]

The English language has many different definitions of the word 'generic', 
none of them deal with Ada.  Which can cause confusion when trying to 
answer someone question, if you do not know the semantics of the word 
'generic' or the phase 'generic statement'.

The Lady was not speaking of the "GENERIC" keyword in Ada. Also 
another clue was this was her first test.  Basically, testing her 
knowledge of Reserved words, program structures, basic data types 
(defined in the "Standard package"), etc.  And how to call a 
procedure and function, which as the base of her question.

Testing for user-defined packages and possible the "Generic" type 
packages may be in second test.


In <46dcfc35$0$30383$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>, Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus.rm.tsoh@maps.futureapps.de> writes:
>anon wrote:
>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -- The Probability the answer that she ask for:                             --
>> --                                                                          --
>> --   type proc_access is access procedure ; -- is the generic statement     --
>> --                                          -- that she needed.             --
>
>I'm not sure I understand "generic statement" here.
>Proc_Access looks like an access to subprogram type.
>What is a generic statement?