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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:56:31 +0100
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Falk Tannh=C3=A4user wrote:

> Such function objects can be of dedicated classes, or can be constructe=
d
> "on the fly" (even it the latter possibility is sometimes a bit awkward=

> due to the lack of closures / lambda expressions in the language - btw,=

> does Ada have something like that?).

Ada 2005 adds downward closures. They have been available in GNAT/GCC
for a number of years now.
For pure Ada 95 there is a workaround using dispatching.

Is a function object similar to a downward closure?

Georg=20