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From: "Michael Garrett" <michaelgarrett@csi.com>
Subject: Re: Run Time Dispatch Question
Date: 2000/02/26
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John English <je@bton.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Michael Garrett wrote:
> > I am having a problem understanding run time dispatching. ( Basic
question I
> > know, but I'm having a brain cramp. )
> > [...snip...]
>
> You need to put your tagged type t and primitive p in a package, not
> a procedure. Otherwise, the procedure p(...) defined for each type
> derived from t is just an overload of the name p, not a primitive of
> the type. Dispatching only happens for primitives. To quote RM95
> 3.2.3:
>
>

Thank You!!

This clears up most of my confusion.



" Build it, Then read the instructions".

Michael