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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: overriding "*", was Re: What's the ICFP Programming contest?
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>That's a well-known feature of Ada 95 (and it is incompatible with Ada
>83). The problem is that you can't hide the mixed fixed point multiply
>(any fixed * any fixed -> universal fixed), so it is ambiguous anywhere
>other than in the children of your fixed point package.
  Why did it work in Ada 83, and why was it changed?