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From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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Jim Rogers wrote:
 > Ada controlled types provide the ability to override finalization,
 > as has been stated before. They also allow the programmer to
 > overrride initialization and "adjustment".

One "gotcha" for Ada newbies is that there is no overriding
initialization when assigning an aggregate, presumably on the
grounds that you can build the aggregate to what it would be
after the initialization was through with it. But I think
that this does not cover all the things that one might want
to do in a constructor, and in those cases, you must take
steps to disallow such aggregates.

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