From: Gautier de Montmollin <gdm AT pops DOT mydiax DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: GENERAL DATA TYPE (Do you need one ?)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:26:13 +0100
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Maybe you want something like Ada's generic programming:

generic
  type object is private;  -- any type
  type result is range <>; -- some discete type

function f(o:object) return result;

?

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