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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Preventing type extensions
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:59:40 +0200
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Florian Weimer writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Suppose I've got a tagged type.  I want to expose the fact that it is
> a tagged type outside its package, but want to prevent type extensons.
> (In short, I'm interested in something like final classes in Java or
> C++0X.)

I think the way to do this is to hide the fact that the type is tagged
:/ Why do you want to make the type publicly tagged if not to allow type
extension?

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Ludovic Brenta.