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From: "Bob Fletcher" <bob@radge.globalnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: run-time type identification
Date: 1998/09/03
Date: 1998-09-03T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bdd742$5952e4a0$f330ea9e@ukp03332> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m367f56601.fsf@mheaney.ni.net

Don't you lose the extra values associated with the derived class though?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that's what would happen.

Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote in article 
> 
> A downcast from a class-wide type nearer the root to a type (specific or
> class-wide) more away from the root is perfectly legal in Ada95.  No
> Unchecked_Conversion is necessary.
> 




  reply	other threads:[~1998-09-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-03  0:00 run-time type identification Bob Fletcher
1998-09-03  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-03  0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-09-03  0:00   ` Bob Fletcher
1998-09-03  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-06  0:00       ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-09-03  0:00     ` Fergus Henderson
1998-09-03  0:00 ` Steve Sabljak
1998-09-03  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-03  0:00   ` Steve Sabljak
1998-09-03  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-03  0:00   ` Bob Fletcher [this message]
1998-09-03  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
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