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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?
Date: 1999/02/06
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To be finicky, I should have said, for the example call

   Something(A,...);

that if A has a static type, the correct Something is selected statically as
a part of normal overload resolution. It is only if A has a dynamic type
(i.e. it is an object of a class-wide type) that the dynamic selection of
Something occurs. It is only the dynamic selection which is called
'dispatching'.

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Nick Roberts
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