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From: matthias_k <nospam@digitalraid.com>
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Subject: Re: Classwide Parameter?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:14:57 +0200
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> Ah! I -totally- misunderstood the meaning of 'class. I thought it makes 
> a method 'virtual' in C++ speaking, therefore allow subclasses to 
> override it and being called dynamically.
> 
> Thanks for clearing up.

If you ask why the hell I thought that:

[quoted from "Big Online Book of Linux Ada Programming" 
(http://www.vaxxine.com/pegasoft/homes/11.html#11.3)]

Ada 	                          Description 	        C Equivalent
[...]
'class 	                          Class-wide type 	virtual <-- !
[...]