From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Universal type in Ada
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:31:03 +0200
Date: 2005-06-15T18:30:49+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42b057b9$0$1137$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf72da73.0506150507.6058c851@posting.google.com>
zw wrote:
> Because
> in Java if a method returns an Object, it could be casted to any other
> types that are subtypes of Object.
Depends on what you mean by "could". You will have to
know the type of your object unless a ClassCastException
is o.K.. You could start expressing a minimal set of
expectations that your Ada program is going to have of a
type. Then use polymorphism down that type's hierarchy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-15 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-15 13:07 Universal type in Ada zw
2005-06-15 13:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-06-16 13:13 ` zw
2005-06-16 14:36 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-17 2:54 ` Stephen Leake
2005-06-19 17:38 ` Martin Krischik
2005-06-15 13:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-15 14:37 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-15 16:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-15 14:34 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-16 13:10 ` zw
2005-06-15 16:31 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2005-06-16 8:18 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2005-06-16 11:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-16 13:23 ` zw
2005-06-16 14:19 ` jimmaureenrogers
2005-06-16 14:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-19 17:31 ` Martin Krischik
2005-06-19 17:26 ` Martin Krischik
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