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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Using Generic Pasckages
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:23:43 +0100
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ldries46 <bertus.dries@planet.nl> writes:

> Now I have the following situation:
> Package AA is new BB(integer);
> Package CC is new BB(integer);
> and a case where I have several statements using Package AA in one
> condition and CC the other case.
> I want  to do that by using:
> if D then EE := AA; else EE := CC; end if;
> But I cannot find in the documentation  how the declaration of EE
> should be made.

Presume you mean

   if D then EE := AA.Get_Value; else EE := CC.Get_Value; end if;

which will work fine as long as Get_Value returns the type that AA, CC
were instantiated with & not some derived tye.