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From: je@unix.brighton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Initialization Params for Controlled Types
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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 10:32:59 GMT
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Cyrille Comar (comar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:

:   procedure Open (Account : in out BankAccount'Class;
:                   Name    : in String);

: It will not be inherited! I do not say that it is the perfect solution for your
: problem, my point is that it is exactly equivalent to defining Open as a
: non-virtual member function in C++.

But surely Open can still be applied to a CurrentAccount (which is in
BankAccount'Class) so this doesn't actually help much.

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