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From: "Rick Santa-Cruz" <rick_santa_cruz75@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: Integer'Class
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:00:49 +0200
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"Jeffrey Carter" <spam@spam.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Rick Santa-Cruz wrote:
>
>> Why can't I use: Integer'Class, but I can derive a new class from
>> Integer in writing:
>> type New_Int is new Integer range 1..100;
>>
>> Isn't this unlogical? Or have I missunderstand something completly?
>
> It is inconsistent. 'Class only applies to tagged types.
>
> This is compounded further by the discussion of type classes, such as the 
> class of integer types, floating-point types, and so on. 'Class was 
> introduced in Ada 95 to allow OOP; type classes existed in Ada 83.
So, it's only a notation-problem and I am not only using "new" to derive (in 
the conext of OOP) from a type? If this is the case, I can use the 
new-keyword always and not only in cases of tagged types... is this true?

Bye,
Rick