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Richard Riehle wrote:

>         procedure Copy_Deep       (Source : in T; Target : in out T);
>         procedure Copy_Shallow  (Source : in T; Target : in out T);


I dislike the notion of providing these methods as external interfaces
to a type. It seems wrong to me for a client to have to know what kind
of copy to use - that's the type's business to know.