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From: Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>
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Subject: Re: Generic type in package
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:32:59 +0100
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Stefan Merwitz wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've seen the following type definition in a package-file (ads):
> 
> generic
>     type T is (<>);
> 
> this seems to allow comparing (smaller, greater or equal) of the type T.
> But I did not find this type definition ("(<>") in the Ada
> documentation. What are the differences to limited private and does this
>   constrict the usable data types for T?

No - its the "box" Read:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Ada:Special:box

Martin

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