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On Oct 11, 5:02=A0pm, Niklas Holsti <niklas.hol...@tidorum.invalid>
wrote:
> Keep a list or array of (accesses to) a factory function for each
> possible (derived) type.

'Lo,

That does sound like the sort of thing I'd have done in C. I still
have a nagging sensation that Ada actually provides other means to
do this based on such things as the 'Tag attribute.

I'll keep this suggestion in mind in the meantime, though.