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From: "Steve Folly" <steve@follysplace.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Help - trying to understand dynamic dispatching
Date: 1999/04/11
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Thanks to all who replied for their suggestions of examples. I have looked
at these and now have a better
understanding of polymorphism.

I think my main problem was getting around the fact that in C++,
polymorphism is achieved through
virtual functions and using a pointer or reference to a base class. In
Ada95, polymorphism can be
achieved with normal (non-pointer) types. It is using the class wide type
that is crucial.

Thanks again.

Steve Folly <steve@follysplace.demon.co.uk> pleaded in message
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> Help! I've been trying to understand how dynamic dispatching works in
Ada95,
> <snipped>