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From: christoph.grein@eurocopter.com
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Subject: Re: Procedure Overloading
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:57:25 +0200 (MET DST)
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Date: 2003-07-25T07:57:25+02:00

Why on earth have the creators of the Ada GLU binding chosen to shoot themselves 
into the foot?

I do not see a way to resolve the overloading ambiguity (except of course 
changing the declarations :-(.

There are other ways to produce unresolvable ambiguities, e.g.

generic
  type T is private;
package G is
  procedure P (X: T);
  procedure P (X: Boolean);
end G;

with G;
package I is new G (Boolean);  -- legal, but I.P is unresovably ambiguous.