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Subject: Re: Instantiating private types with discriminants?
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:25:51 -0500
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> BTW, if pointer were a subtype, then you wouldn't need hard-wired
> dispatching on "access T", because the pointer will simply inherit
> primitive operations and thus dispatch.

I vaguely remember that Ada 9X did it that way at one point. It didn't work
out for some reason (too many preference rules needed?).

                            Randy.