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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Generic Packages
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"Eyal Ben-gal" <eyalbengal@hotmail.com> writes:

> but when i'm trying to make it generic I fail since I'm calling the abstruct
> data type functions and the compiler ofcourse can't know how to connect that
> to the type I'm using for the SetFirst, SetNext functions.
> 
> How can I do that ?

You can either pass in all the operations, or you can use a generic
formal derived type, where the ancestor type has the operations.

- Bob