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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Tagged Types and Generics
Date: 1997/04/25
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Date: 1997-04-25T00:00:00+00:00
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Bob Leif says

<<Background: Recently, Tom Moran, Randy Brukard and I wrote a paper. "Ada
95, The Language Speaks for Itself".  This paper will appear in the May
Object Magazine.  In this paper we modeled money as a decimal type and did
inheritance directly via a generic.  I had suggested modeling money as a
tagged type.  My co-authors very wisely vetoed that approach.  After the>>

I can't see any reason for wanting to model money as a tagged type -- you
lose literals, and you lose a lot of other useful semantics of decimal
types, and you gain nothing  that I can see.