Re: Package instance???

["Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>]

"Yates" <yates_1900@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OvBYEeMtBHA.1400@cpimsnntpa03...
> I am new to Ada. I'd like to know if it is possible to create multiple
> instances of a package. For example, if I have a package 'My_Package',
can
> I do something like:
>
> p1 : My_Package := new My_Package
> p2 : My_Package := new My_Package
> .....
>
> I tried this and didn't work. Is there other ways to do it?

A package is not a type, so you can't do this.

You could declare My_Package as a generic, and then make multiple
instantiations:

generic
package GP is ...;

package P1 is new GP;
package P2 is new GP;

which is close to your original example.

Of course, unless you have static data in the package, I am skeptical of
your need to do this.  Why isn't declaring an instance of a type adequate?
For example:

package P is
   type T is ...;
end;

O1 : P.T;
O2 : P.T;