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From: Jeff Carter <jrcarter001@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: OO puzzle
Date: 1999/12/22
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In article <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.991222103646.28794B-
100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>,
  Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
...
> Can you do this in Ada? How?
...
> Can you do this in Ada ...
...
> Can yuo do this in Ada? Try, and show your error messages! How can
you do
> something to achive the same result, in Ada?
...
> Can you do this in Ada? How?
...

The answer to these repeated questions:

Yes. Use composition, not type extension/dispatching.
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Jeff Carter
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