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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Help - Constructors - ASAP.
Date: 1998/08/04
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Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch> writes:

>>> Another problem, which I think is even worse, is when some
>>> operations of a type are generics (e.g. iterators), then these will
>>> not be derived and you will have to get them from the package that
>>> declares them.
>> 
>> You can rename generic operations.
> 
> But then, they keep the old parameter profile, the one with the type you are
> deriving from, not the derived type. Bad.

Ah, but then another rule of thumb applies.  Since the generic operation
isn't primitive anyway, you just make the tagged parameters class-wide.
Then it will work for your derived types too.