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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 17:14:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED41344.7090105@spam.com> <3ED46D81.FF62C34F@0.0> <3ED46E07.4340CABC@0.0> <3ED4F3FD.A0EF7079@alfred-hilscher.de> <3ED4ECFC.5060000@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 00:14:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.146.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1054167252 162.84.146.112 (Wed, 28 May 2003 20:14:12 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:14:12 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37957 Date: 2003-05-29T00:14:12+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > If you could do it once, for all integer types, it would be worth it. Aren't folks looking into some form of automatically instantiated generics for Ada0Y? If you had that, then you could just do it once. Or rather, if this feature is added to Ada, it should be in a form that would allow for this.