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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.140.229.78 with SMTP id z75mr56793030qhb.14.1451486950648; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:49:10 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.28.129 with SMTP id b1mr535526obh.4.1451486950606; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:49:10 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!6no1684376qgy.0!news-out.google.com!l1ni7132igd.0!nntp.google.com!mv3no16471221igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:49:10 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:120b:2c01:1490:b826:500d:3d5:c1f2; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:120b:2c01:1490:b826:500d:3d5:c1f2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5be84c5a-9614-4ee2-ae85-beb962171a05@googlegroups.com> Subject: Overriding puzzle From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 14:49:10 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28933 Date: 2015-12-30T06:49:10-08:00 List-Id: Hello, A small puzzle for year end... I have a type A and a derived type Custom. How should I redesign things such that a call to New_Page (for an object of type Custom) displays "This is a custom header" and not "This is a normal header", in the code below ? TIA for your help!... _________________________ Gautier's Ada programming http://sf.net/users/gdemont/ --8<---------8<---------8<---------8<------- with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; procedure Test_override is package Pkg is type A is tagged null record; procedure Header(o: A); procedure New_Page(o: A); end; package body Pkg is procedure Header(o: A) is pragma Unreferenced (o); begin Put_Line("This is a normal header"); end; procedure New_Page(o: A) is begin Header(o); end; end; type Custom is new Pkg.A with null record; overriding procedure Header(o: Custom) is pragma Unreferenced (o); begin Put_Line("This is a custom header"); end; obj: Custom; begin obj.New_Page; end;