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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Disallowing Pre-Defined Operations
Date: 2000/03/15
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In article <8ang7v$peo$1@newpoisson.nosc.mil>,
  claveman@fern.com (Charles H. Sampson) wrote:
> James S. Rogers wrote:
> >Why not simply declare the type private or limited private,
then provide
> >your
> >own versions for all the required operators?
>
>      Because, as I said in my original post, the types are
inherently
> numeric and I don't want to lose the ability to use numeric
literals.


Exactly! quite reasonable, and that is why the easy to use
and understand ABSTRACT feature has been provided to exactly
meet your needs here.


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