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On Oct 8, 2:12=A0pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
>
> 1. method =3D polymorphic on the class (=3Dprimitive in Ada)
> 2. class-wide =3D non-polymorphic on the class (=3Dclass-wide in Ada)
> 3. free =3D non-polymorphic on the type (=3Dother in Ada)
>


This is a good list and lays out the possible type/operation-on-that-
type relationship quite nicely.