Re: "use" clauses and Ada 95 OOP

[jamess1889@aol.com (JamesS1889)]

In article <4t2qib$f0o@michp1.redstone.army.mil>, "Kevin J. Weise"
<kweise@c3i-ccmail.sed.redstone.army.mil> writes:

>Unless I'm seriously missing something here, the function in pkg1 
>will be executed if in fact there *is* one in pkg1.  If there isn't, 
>and the user doesn't have detailed knowledge of the derivation of x, 
>then the user has to go looking for where func actually is defined.  
>I see no real difference between this and the class-based model.

Not necessarily in the context of the example.  It was a dispatching call,
therefore, the one that gets called is based on the tag value of x at that
moment.  Pkg1 in fact, must be the package where the root type of the
class is defined.  That is it's only purporse.

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