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From: "Steve" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I create an object instance from a tag?
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What I "thought" was intuitive was something like:
  myTag : Tags.Tag;
  value : data_type'class;
  for Value'Tag use myTag;

Of course that doesn't work.

Steve
(The Duck)

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
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> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote in message ...
>
> >No, you cannot dispatch on a bare tag without any object. But it seems
> >that this will be changed (soon?).
>
>
> Well, it should be changed IMHO, but I don't think that it will be, at
> least in the absense of a proposal that people like better than mine.
> :-) The ways to do it that have been suggested are either not very
> appealing or plain don't work.
>
>                   Randy.
>
>