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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Package Instances???
Date: 15 Feb 2002 19:20:11 +0000
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Marin David Condic wrote:
> > Sounds like you're trying to treat a package as if it was a C++ class and
> > you're trying to create a new instance of it because it presumably holds a
> > set of variables you want to duplicate? First, as you discovered, you can't
> > do that. Second, it isn't really the right idiom for Ada.
> 
> Wouldn't it work by just making the package generic?

But different instantiations would be different "classes". I guess
that depends on what the generic actually says.