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From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !!
Date: 1999/10/15
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In article <7u7o36$tv8$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> , Richard D Riehle 
<laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>  wrote:

> Alternatively, the declare block could (many say _should_) be promoted to a
> subprogram call.

Whoever says "should" is wrong.

The purpose of a declare block is to localize the declaration of
objects, as your example illustrated.

The purpose of a subprogram is to abstract away algorithmic complexity.

These are two completely different things, and there should be no reason
why they are confused.

Matt

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