A.18.13 The Generic Package Containers.Indefinite_Hashed_Maps
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The language-defined generic package Containers.Indefinite_Hashed_Maps
provides a map with the same operations as the package Containers.Hashed_Maps
(see
A.18.5), with the difference that the
generic formal types Key_Type and Element_Type are indefinite.
Static Semantics
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The declaration of the generic library package Containers.Indefinite_Hashed_Maps
has the same contents and semantics as Containers.Hashed_Maps except:
The generic formal Key_Type is indefinite.
The generic formal Element_Type is indefinite.
The procedure with
the profile:
procedure Insert (Container : in out Map;
Key : in Key_Type;
Position : out Cursor;
Inserted : out Boolean);
is omitted.
Discussion: This procedure is omitted
because there is no way to create a default-initialized object of an
indefinite type. We considered having this routine insert an empty element
similar to the empty elements of a vector, but rejected this possibility
because the semantics are fairly complex and very different from the
existing case. That would make it more error-prone to convert a container
from a definite type to an indefinite type; by omitting the routine completely,
any problems will be diagnosed by the compiler.
The actual Element parameter of access subprogram
Process of Update_Element may be constrained even if Element_Type is
unconstrained.
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The operations Include, Insert, Replace, and Replace_Element that have
a formal parameter of type Element_Type perform indefinite insertion
(see
A.18).
Discussion: Some of the named operations
also have a formal of the indefinite formal type Key_Type and perform
indefinite insertion using that value, but it is sufficient to mention
the formal of type Element_Type to cover those.
Extensions to Ada 95
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The generic package Containers.Indefinite_Hashed_Maps
is new.
Inconsistencies With Ada 2012
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Corrigendum: Defined some routines to “perform
indefinite insertion”. This could mean that some calls to those
routines would now raise Program_Error where they previously worked.
However, this is extremely unlikely; see Inconsistencies With Ada 2012
in
A.18.11 for details.
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