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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <9q4d850163k@drn.newsguy.com>, Robert*@ says...
>
>the class construct is the basic construct in OO as commonly used. Ada 
>does not have it. It is that simple. Ada does do OO, but not using the 

So now you are saying something isn't a "class" in your book if you can't use
"distinguished receiver" notation on its method calls? Come on, that's just
silly. I could just as easily argue that something that *does* use distinguished
receiver notation doesn't have "classes" in my book, because there's no way to
dispatch on multiple objects, like there is in Ada.

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