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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1dd28d5040ded1f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-10 09:23:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:23:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3CDBC5E3.1010609@mail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1021047784 21638 129.241.83.82 (10 May 2002 16:23:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:23:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23856 Date: 2002-05-10T16:23:04+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 10 May 2002 09:06:43 -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote: > Once again, I begin with a caveat that I am a C++ and > not an Ada programmer, so forgive me if I'm talking > through my hat. > > I am thinking that it would also be useful to allow generic > formal packages to have a default value, and moreover, to > allow this default value to be a new instantiation of a > generic, most likely using preceding generic parameters. > It seems to me that this would incorporate a flavor of C++'s > template style of traits classes and automatic instantiation > while still preserving the actual Ada style of explicit > generic instantiation. > I don't see what you gain by this? -- "Jeg tror nordmenn har glemt hvordan de tilbreder fisk. De er mest opptatt av firkantet fisk." -- Kristian Kristiansen, yrkesfisker, aftenposten.no 19/04/02