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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Problem with generic parameter
Date: 22 Jun 2005 15:09:01 +0200
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Marius Amado Alves wrote:

> I think this is legal,

Thanks.

> so the compiler is buggy.

:-(

> But I find it an unlogical generic idiom, and probably the bug has
> passed unnoticed before for this reason. That is, nobody wrote this
> before. What I find unlogical is the Generic_Root.Child
> parameters. I would find it logical to represent the array type as
> an exported entity instead of a generic parameter.
> 
> generic
>     type Indices is (<>);
> package Generic_Root
>     type Measurement is array (Indices) of Measurement;

The reason that I don't do that is that that would have to instantiate
a copy of Generic_Root _and_ Generic_Root.Child for each choice of
array indices.

I will report the problem to ACT and Debian. - And use your suggestion
as a workaround.

Jacob
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