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Subject: Re: Dynamic type system for Ada
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On 01/28/2017 02:16 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:20:33 +0200, Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
> declaimed the following:
>>
>> In my initial request there was no proposal to encode arbitrary Ada object.
>>
> 	Your subject line is "dynamic type system...", so naturally we would
> consider anything in Ada that can be defined via "... type ..."

On Jan 24 he wrote

>> All I ask is just an Ada type which would be so flexible that could store
>> any kind of a value (just like as a variable in a dynamic language).

"Any kind of value" must mean "values of any type".

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in
space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth."
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