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Subject: Re: SPARK - an idea for high integrity data structures
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"Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com> writes:

> I know Praxis is working on generics support in SPARK. Once that was
> ready it probably wouldn't be too hard for the original author of a
> high integrity collections library to generalize the code as
> appropriate. At least that would be my hope.

An alternative might be to use an external macro processor to generate
appropriate code complete with annotations. I guess that would depend on
whether the proofs (a) didn't depend on the contained type, (b) didn't
need (much) human intervention.