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A.18.11 The Generic Package Containers.Indefinite_Vectors

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The language-defined generic package Containers.Indefinite_Vectors provides a private type Vector and a set of operations. It provides the same operations as the package Containers.Vectors (see A.18.2), with the difference that the generic formal Element_Type is indefinite.

Static Semantics

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The declaration of the generic library package Containers.Indefinite_Vectors has the same contents and semantics as Containers.Vectors except:
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The generic formal Element_Type is indefinite.
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The procedures with the profiles: 
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procedure Insert (Container : in out Vector;
                  Before    : in     Extended_Index;
                  Count     : in     Count_Type := 1);
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procedure Insert (Container : in out Vector;
                  Before    : in     Cursor;
                  Position  :    out Cursor;
                  Count     : in     Count_Type := 1);
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are omitted.
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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 "&", Append, Insert, Prepend, Replace_Element, and To_Vector that have a formal parameter of type Element_Type perform indefinite insertion (see A.18).
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The description of Tampering_With_Elements_Prohibited is replaced by:
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Returns True if tampering with elements is prohibited for Container, and False otherwise. 
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Tampering_With_Cursors_Prohibited is replaced by Tampering_With_Elements_Prohibited in the postcondition for the operations Reference and Constant_Reference.
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The operations Replace_Element, Reverse_Elements, and Swap, and the nested generic unit Generic_Sorting are omitted from the nested package Stable.
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