16.10 Chapter Summary

This chapter covered these topics:

• a review of near-generic ideas as they may be employed in the base language
• formal generic templates as defined in Standard Generic Modula-2
  • generic separate modules
  • refining separate modules
  • refining local modules
• the use of generics for parameterizing both techniques and abstract data types
• the use of refinement in local modules to scale software on a modular basis