From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with instantiating generic procedure
Date: 1999/07/19
Date: 1999-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcck8rwejsq.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7mqfcq$9og$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk
mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) writes:
> What is wrong with simply implementing a procedure declared
> in the spec file in the body file by instantiating it from
> a generic procedure of the exact same signature? ...
Nothing, except that it's illegal. ;-)
The Ada 9X design team proposed to allow this, but it was not considered
important enough -- any language change has some cost, and the benefit
of allowing this is not huge.
Note that in Ada 83, the renaming-as-body didn't exist, so you had to
write a whole wrapper body.
- Bob
--
Change robert to bob to get my real email address. Sorry.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-17 0:00 Problem with instantiating generic procedure Markus Kuhn
1999-07-17 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-07-17 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-07-18 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-07-18 0:00 ` Chad R. Meiners
1999-07-18 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-07-18 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-07-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
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