Re: layered packages

[jls@yoda.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter)]

I submitted an Ada 9x on this, since I believe that at the point of
derivation you should now get matrix's fetch and store for FREE (this
is how it works in an inheritance language like C++) unless you want
to specifically override the inherited defaults.

Until such time as this is changed, what you do now is write stupid
little "skins" that basically just coerce the types from derived to
base and/or from base to derived, and call the base type's operations.
For example, here is matrix.fetch:

function fetch (from_adt : in adt;
                at_row, at_col : in index) return scalar is
begin
    return low_level.fetch (from_adt => low_level.adt (from_adt),
                           ....);
end fetch;

Barring this little annoyance, I think a derived type is better than
a subtype in this example.
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