From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,51890d5f6003bad4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Integer'Class References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:45:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.143 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1097005538 63.184.105.143 (Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:45:38 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:45:38 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4749 Date: 2004-10-05T19:45:38+00:00 List-Id: Rick Santa-Cruz wrote: > So, it's only a notation-problem and I am not only using "new" to > derive (in the conext of OOP) from a type? If this is the case, I can > use the new-keyword always and not only in cases of tagged types... > is this true? I'm not sure what you're asking. You can derive from any type, but usually you neither want or need to. -- Jeff Carter "We burst our pimples at you." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 16