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From: Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com>
Subject: Re: Dynamic run-time
Date: 2000/04/04
Date: 2000-04-04T16:22:30+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38EA16C5.22EC8332@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38E3BAC4.FC400CA4@averstar.com

Tucker Taft wrote:

> Not really.  Using tagged types you can do the kind of dynamic binding
> that exists in C++ or Eiffel, but not the kind of "very dynamic" binding
> that you can do in SmallTalk.  The upside is that in Ada you will
> never get a "message not understood."  [...]

Well, you can get Constraint_Error instead of "message not understood",
see Ada RM 3.9.2(16).




      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-04-04  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-30  0:00 Dynamic run-time xaplos
2000-03-30  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-04-03  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-04  0:00   ` Mats Weber [this message]
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