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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Universal type in Ada
Date: 15 Jun 2005 08:32:04 -0500
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In article <bf72da73.0506150507.6058c851@posting.google.com>, zw@cs.man.ac.uk (zw) writes:
> Hi, I am trying to create a Universal type in Ada such as "Object" in
> Java so that I could define a function that returns a value in this
> Universal type, then I could lower-cast value in this type to its
> specific type such as String, Float or any user-defined types. Because
> in Java if a method returns an Object, it could be casted to any other
> types that are subtypes of Object. Is there a Universal type in Ada?
> Could anyone tell me how to create such types in Ada, please?

That is not a very Ada-like way to program.

Are absolutely certain you are not trying to transfer programming habits
from other languages over to Ada ?