From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7aeecd1069c28415 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Objects and the Stack? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <5CKwd.2147$RH4.137@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:12:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.189.49.39 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1103328769 63.189.49.39 (Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:12:49 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:12:49 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7040 Date: 2004-12-18T00:12:49+00:00 List-Id: Freejack wrote: > Stack : Obstack'Class; -- Problematic, needs some kind > of discriminant. This must be initialized, and from then on cannot change its tag. I suspected you might be thinking along these lines, but it won't work. See ARM 6.2: "The tag of an object of a class-wide tagged type is that of its initialization expression." -- Jeff Carter "I soiled my armor, I was so scared." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 71