From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,bfcbd34f9610fd42
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: [OT] Ada classwide copy vs C++ clone
Followup-To: comp.lang.ada
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:43:41 +0200
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID: <iv4gmu$7cs$1@dont-email.me>
References: <iv22if$9j0$1@dont-email.me>
 <1ica1q1kvq6dw$.1vgiru5typ5y$.dlg@40tude.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
Injection-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:43:42 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org;
 posting-host="M7rP6jhm1IVgvmYaXQFuIA";
	logging-data="7580"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";
	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+8M9dk94P8yqpHkP6aq5wS"
User-Agent: KNode/4.4.10
Cancel-Lock: sha1:FakNmMXtOatFwxqUQbWAwhHltU8=
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20119
Date: 2011-07-07T16:43:41+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:30:01 +0200, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> 
>> So, this is what I'd like to hear confirmed. Am I right? or is there
>> something simpler that I'm overlooking?
> 
> AFAIK, no. I created a task in Rosetta Code to illustrate the issue. So
> far nobody could solve it in C++ without using clone pattern:
> 
> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Polymorphic_copy

Interesting, I should check this site more often for mi refresher sprees.

Alex.