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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Announce: Grace project site operational
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dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes:

> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<w1dYrjaH4ynM@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> > Is there no way a generic type parameter can have a default value ?
> 
> Not a *type* parameter, no. Perhaps this is something that should be
> looked at for the next Ada revision?

Nor a variable in-out object parameter: I wanted to supply a default
object of type Root_Storage_Pool'Class -- no way I could see.