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"Picking the Java-style interfaces as a standard way to do one flavor
of MI is easy to agree on."
Fake MI.
> /* Tangent but doubly related issue: increasing the power of
> generics viz. towards generic parameters would be also a more
> interesting addition to me. I mean to be able to pass a generic unit
> to a (mandatorily generic) unit. I came across many situations where
> this would be useful. */

I don't follow. How is this different from formal packages?
You can only pass instances as actuals for them. Instead I want to write =
for example
generic
  generic package Generic_Formal; -- Ada 2015
package P is
  type T is ...;

  package Instance is new Generic_Formal (T);
end;
generic
  ...
package G is
  ...
end;
package Instance_Of_P is new P (G);