From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Generic package parameters not externally visible : what's the rational ?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:37:14 -0400
Date: 2009-10-27T19:37:14-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc63a0xvbp.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hc7p47$pn7$1@news.tornevall.net
"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:
> One possible rationale is:
>
> In order to reference the generic parameters from the instance, you have
> to have visibility of the instantiation. If you have visibility of the
> instantiation, then you have visibility of the generic actual parameters
> used in the instantiation. Therefore, you do not need visibility of the
> generic parameters from the instance,
I agree you don't need it (at least, in the Ada 83 cases).
>...so why complicate the language by
> providing it?
But I don't see why it complicates the language. Seems like a wash in
Ada 83. And in Ada 95/2005, I think the existing rule is slightly more
complicated (because it special-cases generic formal packages).
- BOb
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2009-10-26 8:58 Generic package parameters not externally visible : what's the rational ? Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-26 11:05 ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-10-26 15:02 ` Robert A Duff
2009-10-27 1:06 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-26 14:56 ` Robert A Duff
2009-10-27 3:03 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-27 21:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-27 21:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-27 22:03 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-27 22:19 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-28 19:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-29 12:18 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-29 22:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-30 0:10 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-27 22:04 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-27 23:37 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2009-10-27 23:41 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-27 23:34 ` Robert A Duff
2009-10-28 2:19 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-28 19:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-29 7:34 ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-29 12:21 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-29 13:10 ` AdaMagica
2009-10-29 15:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-10-29 19:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-29 20:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-10-30 10:30 ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-30 17:53 ` Ludovic Brenta
2009-10-31 2:10 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-30 5:19 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-28 9:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-28 19:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-29 8:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-29 23:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-30 8:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-30 10:25 ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-30 19:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-31 2:06 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31 9:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-03 8:25 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-03 9:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-05 10:38 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-05 11:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-05 12:16 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-05 14:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-06 12:19 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-06 13:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-31 2:08 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31 12:44 ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-01 11:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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