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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: A bad counterintuitive behaviour of Ada about OO
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 22:23:22 +0200
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On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:21:56 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Le 08/08/2014 15:52, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> 
>> 1. Consider non-dispatching calls. Uncontrolled overloading were safer?
> What is uncontrolled overloading?

Like instances of Put for every thinkable integer type.

>> 2. Consider dispatching calls. Constraint_Error on different tags is safer?
>> 
> At least, well defined.

Is it safe?

> And does not require writing N**2 functions...

It certainly require defining these functions. Raising Constraint_Error is
such a definition.

> Or how would you implement MD?

That is a different question.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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