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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Preventing type extensions
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:57:43 -0700 (PDT), Cyrille wrote:

> My main point was to clarify that classwide operations
> (or their equivalent) are not something specific to Ada at all as Jean-
> Pierre seemed to assume.

Yes, but what I wanted to point out is that class-wide operations cannot be
made properly typed if there is no type to denote "class" as whole [and
other types to denote members of the class].

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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