From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,d03bacbf45006b2f X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.180.98.103 with SMTP id eh7mr457781wib.3.1360922602878; Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:03:22 -0800 (PST) Path: g1ni12261wig.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.109.133.83.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!usenetcore.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.meeh.mikalv.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Trouble finding a particular paper on Ada generics Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:13:08 -0500 Organization: The Wasteland Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2013-02-08T22:13:08-05:00 List-Id: In article , Shark8 wrote: > Several months ago I came across a paper [in PDF] which described a > very intriguing way of using generics. The idea (as I recall) was > almost like instead of paramertizing on the types it was > parameterizing on the data, so in effect, instead of having the data > in a record the data was in the [instantiation] of the package > itself. > > I would like to find it for a second read-through but have had no > luck in finding it again. Does this spark a memory from anyone? Not a PDF, but an interesting use of generics that was cited in that time frame: -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com