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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <mailman.1002817756.16222.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, M. A. Alves
says...
>
>The Object.Method syntax can be implemented with preprocessing (please
>correct me if I am wrong on this).

If you are dying for it, you can also implement it with generic packages. You
don't get runtime polymorphism this way, but on the plus side this technique
works with Ada 83 too.

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