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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Inheritance versus Generics
Date: 1997/04/27
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Date: 1997-04-27T00:00:00+00:00
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Surely the most fundamental capability introduced by the O. O. features of
Ada 95 is dynamic dispatching. Is there a viable alternative way to provide
the same functionality?

Also, fill me in a little on the idea of arrays of packages, please. This
seems like a weird concept to li'l ol' me (but interesting).

Nick.