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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Attributes
Date: 1998/10/29
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Alessandro (busato@newtech.it) wrote:

: does an attribute exist for getting a type from an object (i.e.
: variable)?

No.  About the closest you can come is initializing a
class-wide object by copying an existing object.  The
new class-wide object's tag is determined by the original
object's tag.  (This capability is analogous to the "x like y" 
capability of Eiffel.)  For example:

   X : T'Class := Y;


: ...
: Thanks,

: Alessandro
: busato@newtech.it
: Trieste (Italy)
: NE&T

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