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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 20:09:46 -0500
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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
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>As an additional aside but related question, I'm also interested in the 
>question in the particular context of storage-pools, which use tagged 
>types instead of simple sub-program designated by some attributes or 
>operator overloading (I imagine simple sub-programs could have been an 
>option for the `new` operator, just like for the other operators).

Nitpick: "new" is not an operator, it is an *operation*, things whose 
behavior cannot be modified directly. Like membership, it would be hard to 
make "new" an operator because one of the arguments can be a type (rather 
than an object or value), and it's hard to see how that could be mapped to 
an Ada function. (Adding type parameters seems over the top.)

                                 Randy.