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From: "Anthony E. Glover" <aglover@elmco.com>
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Subject: How Can I Create A Class Dynamically
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I have a class hierarchy defined and I would like to be able to read a
string and then dynamically creating a pointer to an object of the type
specified by the string. Similar I think to class loading and class
factories in Java. Can this be done in Ada95. If so, how. I have looked at
the Ada.Tags packages and this looks like it might be helpfull, but I'm not
quite sure how to make use of it. I would basically like to be able to avoid
having to specify a case statement or if block when initially creating my
objects.

Thanks,
Tony