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Date: 2007-02-09T20:45:03+01:00

Maciej Sobczak writes:
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> I treat it as an idiom that allows me to finally achieve the goal, but
> not as a direct support for the feature that would be most accurate.

Fair enough, but then why are you here? Ada is all about providing building
blocks that allow you to accomplish a purpose, rather than whiz-bang
features that provide the entire purpose in a neat but inflexible package.

There are many examples of that: tagged types, derivation, packages (which
combine to make a "class"), Finalization via controlled types, (<>),
protected types (which can be use to write a lock, but isn't a lock by
itself), etc.

                     Randy.