Re: Help - trying to understand dynamic dispatching

[David Botton <David@Botton.com>]

Take a look on the Ada Source Code Treasury learning section at:

http://www.botton.com/ada/learn

for on-line tutorials and books that can help you in this area.

Also take a look at:

http://www.botton.com/ada/books

for a listing of great Ada books

David Botton


Steve Folly wrote:

> Help! I've been trying to understand how dynamic dispatching works in Ada95,
> particularly the syntax required - ie. when and where you need the class
> wide types.
>
> I'm not going to explain my problem here - my problem really is "how do you
> do it?".
> I'm more familiar with the C++ method of virtual functions.
>
> Unless someone wants to explain and perhaps give a concrete example in C++
> and it's equivalent Ada95 :-), a helpful push in the direction of a book,
> paper or website describing such a beast would be most appreciated.
>
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