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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Idiom for a class and an object in Ada
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:01:03 +0200
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:44:04 -0400, Matthew Heaney wrote:

> The term "class" in Ada has a very specific meaning.  In Ada, it means 
> "family of types."  Specifically, it means "family of tagged types, having 
> this common ancestor."

This is incorrect. For example ARM 12.5 refers classes of types other than
"class rooted in".

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