Re: Universal type in Ada

[zw@cs.man.ac.uk]

Hi, thank you very much. This is a great idea to create pointers to an
Object. I also have the same idea, but my problem is a pointer must be
declared with a specific type such as a pointer to an Integer. However,
in Ada, when we declared Object as an abstract superclass, the existing
types like Integer, Float, String are not an Object, we could easily
define a superclass called "Object" and define all of our types
inherited from the "Object", this way we will get roughly same
functionalities like Object as the root type. However, there is no way
to cope with existing types like Integer. I would like to know that
whether this is possible to define a root type like "Object" in Java so
that whatever a "Method" is, it will always return an "Object"? because
all classes are inherited from "Object", so an Integer is an Object, a
Float is an Object, ...........