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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

>          Defining equality is of questionable value/pain since the
> element type was private - do you want to force someone to define
> equality in every instance?

I have a user who definitely did want this (for example, what if the
key were a case-insensitive string?)

  with function "=" (L, R : Key) return Boolean is <>;

It does mean that equality has to be visible at the point of
instantiation, of course.

Slightly concerned about having over-simplified components (training
wheels); if the purpose is purely for teaching that's OK but look at
Pascal.