Re: Ada generics and private type operations

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Robert Sinclair <bob1sinclair@yahoo.com> writes:

> I've written a generic using Ada 95. The generic has 5 private
> types. I'm trying to perform ">=" and "<=" operations on the private
> types to no avail. I'm using 'With Function ">=" (l, r :
> private_type) return boolean' in the declaration of the generic. I
> can't seem to figure out how to code the instantiating program to
> actually perform the operation. Can someone please provide a simple
> code example?

We need to see your code first.

One general rule I follow is to use names rather than operator symbols
for generic parameters;

generic
   with function Greater_Equal ...;
...

That makes it clearer what is going on. The overloading/inheritance
rules for operator symbols can be hard to understand.

After you get things working this way, you can try replacing
Greater_Equal with ">=", and see if it breaks.

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