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From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: Help - Constructors - ASAP.
Date: 1998/08/04
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Matthew Heaney wrote:

> Ah, but then another rule of thumb applies.  Since the generic operation
> isn't primitive anyway, you just make the tagged parameters class-wide.
> Then it will work for your derived types too.

Weren't we talking about non-tagged types ?

Anyway, I don't think it's a good idea to make them class-wide just for that
reason. Most often, the generic operation needs to be adapted when inheriting,
so making the tagged type parameters class-wide is error-prone.