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From: "Norman H. Cohen" <ncohen@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: polymophism
Date: 1996/11/22
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Mike Stark wrote:

>                                                             The
> primitive operation is a concept added for Ada 95, 

Actually, it's very nearly the same thing that was called a "derivable
subprogram" in Ada 83.

(Other than that nit, I agree with what Mike has to say.)


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