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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: A bad counterintuitive behaviour of Ada about OO
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:59:02 +0200
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 23:09:40 +0300, Victor Porton wrote:

> Why Ada behaves in this counter-intuitive way?

Because it is C++ code written in Ada.

> What should I do in similar situations when developing real Ada software?

Never re-dispatch, never cast types, unless you exactly know what are you
doing.

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