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From: richard.charts@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: Basic Explaination of OO in Ada
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Lucretia wrote:
> richard.charts@gmail.com wrote:
> > One thing I'm still confused on is the use of access objects
>
> An access type is equivalent to a pointer in C, although an access type
> in Ada may or may not be an actual address, it could be an offset into
> a block of memory.
>
> Luke.

I understand that part, but I do not see how an access type could be
used to handle polymorphism.  Unless that is the point.

or (as I am scrolling through Ada Distilled) is it that I am
misunderstanding Storage Pool Access Type vs General Access Type?  Is
it possible to for object_type to handle either object or sub_object?