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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: questions on RM's section of subprograms and dispatching Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:43:12 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="57e4943b7e60780cbbd8958b3f7a03f3"; logging-data="31649"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18UM0BRo+GIbX/L7dCljUGWg3qxIS8iZYE=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rIxQSR65oNCd5GXNi4HlSoLt4Zg= sha1:AgmKIa/TZGsPzCggOIwzIlVRBTI= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50612 Date: 2018-02-23T20:43:12+00:00 List-Id: Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> writes: > tagged types with abstract primitives must be abstract, and can have > only abstract primitives This isn't true; abstract types can have concrete primitives. See e.g. BC.Containers.Collections https://sourceforge.net/p/booch95/code/ci/default/tree/src/bc-containers-collections.ads