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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question
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"Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1027489082.2047.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> When you used this trick to redefine 
> equality, also the predefined equality reemerged as in 
> the cases above. Thus for 
> compatibility, we have this rule in Ada 95.

The compatibility consideration here does not relate solely
to the use of the trick for redefining equality.