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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Access to function returning class-wide type
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message 
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> Anyway, the access parameter exists so that an instance of this routine 
> matches the profile of S'Class'Input. After all, the purpose of this 
> routine is to eliminate the Ada 95 compiler magic involved with 
> S'Class'Input and make it user-programmable. The thought is that a 
> user-defined version of S'Class'Input would be directly specified as an 
> instance of Generic_Dispatching_Constructor.

I realized just now that I screwed up this answer, it doesn't make much 
sense as I wrote it above. The correct reason was so that S'Input could be 
used as the constructor routine to an instance of 
Generic_Dispatching_Constructor, and then that instance could be used as 
part of a routine implementing a user-defined S'Class'Input. Sorry about any 
confusion.

                                          Randy.