From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,NICE_REPLY_A, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Calling inherited primitive operations in Ada Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 13:59:29 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <67b32db0-c4db-466c-ac13-e597e008c762n@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 11:59:29 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="45300621dee1fc91cb38e31b4cd7878a"; logging-data="2296706"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+6lLu50L+f5mNQNLCp2B773jbQAt6i9SQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wmPyzv14UyIGI4GsVIA5BRaNYEg= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <67b32db0-c4db-466c-ac13-e597e008c762n@googlegroups.com> Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64253 List-Id: On 2022-09-01 09:57, amo...@unizar.es wrote: > > Is this about how according to some mystifying rules generic formals are[n't] visible from outside the generic? This seems like a non-issue to me. Any code that has visibility to a generic instance knows the actuals used for that instance. Can anyone provide real examples where this is a problem? -- Jeff Carter "[M]any were collected near them, ... to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two dead young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report." Persuasion 155