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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Interfaces and Generics?
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:06:16 -0500
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"> chris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Will Ada 200x (Ada XP ;) )  revise generics for the new interfaces that
> will be present?  I expect so, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
>
> For example, will you be able to specify that a generic package only
> deals with something that implements two (or more) given interfaces?

Yes. Interfaces are both supported in formal derived types and with a new
formal interface type.

BTW, the syntax of the examples that Robert Eachus has been giving is all
wrong. Look at the AI itself to see the syntax:
http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00251.TXT. (Note: I've got
a new version that will be posted soon.)

                        Randy.