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From: stt@harp.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Question (was Re: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?)
Date: 1999/02/24
Date: 1999-02-24T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F7onAx.Jwt.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m31zjf4ryv.fsf@mheaney.ni.net

Matthew Heaney (matthew_heaney@acm.org) wrote:

: ...
: I just wish Ada allowed the attribute T'Class for non-tagged types too.

We had those for a while during the 9X process, but they were considered
a bit too "radical" ;-).  They survived as the "universal types" for
numeric types, but the more general notion of <non-tagged>'Class
didn't make the "cut."

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-24  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-05  0:00 How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95? Norman Ramsey
1999-02-05  0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-05  0:00   ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-06  0:00   ` Ed Falis
1999-02-06  0:00     ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-06  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-17  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1999-02-18  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-18  0:00         ` Tom Moran
1999-02-18  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-18  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00           ` Tom Moran
1999-02-19  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-18  0:00         ` Tom Moran
1999-02-19  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1999-02-19  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1999-02-23  0:00       ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-23  0:00         ` Question (was Re: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?) Mike Silva
1999-02-24  0:00           ` (long) programming by extension (was: " Samuel Mize
1999-02-24  0:00             ` (long) programming by extension Samuel Mize
1999-02-25  0:00               ` (shorter and new) " Samuel Mize
1999-02-25  0:00                 ` Mike Silva
1999-02-26  0:00                   ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-24  0:00           ` Question (was Re: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?) Nick Roberts
1999-02-24  0:00           ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-02-24  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-24  0:00               ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1999-02-06  0:00 ` How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95? Matthew Heaney
1999-02-06  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-06  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-06  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-06  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-09  0:00     ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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