Re: Extending a type and Finalization

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Pascal Malaise wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Thank you Ludovic. Solution 2 is fine for me.
>
> Concerning your recommendation, I think that the following is
> compliant, or did I misunderstand something?
> type T is new Ada.Finalization.Controlled with record
>     I : Integer;
>   end record;
> end P;

No, that complies with Dmitry's recommendation but not with mine or
Jeffrey's. I prefer and recommend composition unless there is a
compelling reason to use type extension. Adam's post earlier in this
thread describes the composition approach.

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Ludovic Brenta.