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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Container reqs
Date: 17 Oct 2001 07:08:58 +0100
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"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> writes:

> The way I see it, if it is impossible - or just very hard - to
> provide default instantiaions, it is likely that the design is bad
> anyway.

I don't see how you can provide containers that can contain anything
at all in Ada.

You could have containers that were capable of handling anything in
Containable_Object'Class, I guess (but you'd need access types, 'Class
is unconstrained).