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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:35:06 +0100
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Jerry Coffin wrote:

> Some areas are somewhat more questionable -- calling a class a "tagged
> record" is clearly a mistake, but it's open to question whether it
> should be classified under poor expression of the concept, or just
> general idiocy.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/8b8748382fcfacc1/f6536ae8243e253c?q=%22class+type%22+group:comp.lang.ada+author:dewar#f6536ae8243e253c

     class type T is ...

instead of

     type T is tagged ...



> In C++ you can throw an arbitrary type of object with an arbitrary
> value.

How well does this style of passing information work across thread
boundaries? (Not debating the usefulness of the mechanism. Although
I think it deserves to be separated from exception handling.)

Georg