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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> The question was: do we [programmers] need to know the representation
> when we inherit a method? The answer is NO.

If you are also inheriting the representation, correct.
If you are not, then the answer is YES.