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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: No multiple dispatch in Ada95?
Date: 1995/04/07
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Date: 1995-04-07T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <3m3c72$5ms@disunms.epfl.ch>, matomira@di.epfl.ch (Fernando
Mato Mira) writes: 

|> I was also dissapointed by this. I found that the inability of
|> defining a new virtual for a set of classes without access to
|> source code is a slap in the face to reuse (of couse, such new operations
|> should live in a different package, to avoid problems when you get
|> a new release of that library).

I don't understand the problem.  You can derive from a tagged type in a
child of the package in which that type is declared, inheriting the
operations of the original and adding others.

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com