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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?
Date: 1999/02/09
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Matthew Heaney wrote in message ...
>"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> writes:
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>Declare blocks are your friend.  Unnecessary use of heap is your enemy.

Agreed.  In fact, often the appropriate thing to do is use a declare block -- e.g., when reading from a stream, and the type is
unknown -- but in this case I was also attempting to show that the same _object_ could refer to any descendnts of the root class.