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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Some questions on a library design
Date: 1997/06/21
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote in article
<EBxrtu.7v6@world.std.com>...
[...]
> One nice thing about Ada, is that you can choose to use dispatching or
> not, on a call-by-call basis.

In theory, but not often in practice. And in no case is the inefficiency of
the extra tag removed, nor of the dynamic tag checking (and sometimes
dynamic access checking).

Nick.