From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e7db243dfa070d7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!newsfeed3.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do people who use Ada also use ocaml or F#? Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:46:13 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <87k4kz3mda.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <5jjgrklivesk$.z0is5qe7mgbt.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1288961159 18571 192.74.137.71 (5 Nov 2010 12:45:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:45:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:j8AEn9K3DTxnVSPWjJ2zA2kdDlc= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15259 Date: 2010-11-05T08:46:13-04:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > How do you execute a generic body? Testable are generic instances. You can't test a generic without instantiating it. You can't test a procedure without calling it. You can't test an abstract type without declaring a concrete type, and some objects of that type. What am I missing? - Bob