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[[Ada (programming language)|Ada]] has had generics since it was first designed in 1977–1980. The standard library uses generics to provide many services. Ada 2005 adds a comprehensive generic container library to the standard library, which was inspired by C++'s [[standard template library]].
A ''generic unit'' is a package or a subprogram that takes one or more ''generic formal parameters''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Generic Units |url=https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/html/RM-12.html |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=www.adaic.org}}</ref>
A ''generic formal parameter'' is a value, a variable, a constant, a type, a subprogram, or even an instance of another, designated, generic unit. For generic formal types, the syntax distinguishes between discrete, floating-point, fixed-point, access (pointer) types, etc. Some formal parameters can have default values.
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