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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Victor Porton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Instantiations of a generic with often encountered arguments Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 02:04:13 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: edFHTOfx8phAphItWrZ8cQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: KNode/4.14.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49155 Date: 2017-11-26T02:04:13+02:00 List-Id: Is it a good practice to declare "centralized" (that is in the same package as a generic packages is defined in, or in a child unit) instantiations of a generic package with common (that is often encountered, such as Integer, String, etc.) generic parameters? In C++ this is not a problem, because there a template is instantiated whenever one needs it. But what's about Ada? -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org