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Subject: Re: Surprise in array concatenation
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<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> It would be very nice if the Ada language had a capability to include
> abstract data types or extensible objects as members of the ordered
> set.   This would be even more powerful if the enumerated type
> were, itself, abstract and extensible.   I say nice, but realizing that
> such a feature would make it nearly impossible to design this so
> the underlying design goals of Ada would be satisfied.  I myself would
> find the implementation of this design to be extraodinarily difficult.

It isn't *that* hard to define something that works (see AI-261). But it's
weird compared to the rest of the language. If we had gotten Integer'Class
in Ada 95, it would be more worthwhile...

                Randy.