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From: Javier Miranda <jmiranda@iuma.ulpgc.es>
Subject: Re: Basic Explaination of OO in Ada
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:13:22 -0400
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On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	Not "object" but "type", followed immediately by the list of
> procedures/functions that work on that type. Ada95 does not use the
> "object.method(args)" syntax -- it dispatches on "method(object,  
> args)".

... but Ada 2005 has the object.method notation (and the recent public
versions of the GNAT compiler already provide such support). This  
feature
is described here:

http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00252.TXT?rev=1.16

My two cents ;-)

--- Javier Miranda