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Subject: Re: Discriminated records are not the most efficient, but ...
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:57:19 +0200
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Le Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:18:35 +0200, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57)  =

<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a =C3=A9crit:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union

An opportunity to notice how Ada provides the concept to map this elemen=
t  =

of functional programming to its imperative language. And there may be  =

others which can be easily mapped to Ada. Model in ML or SML (prototypin=
g  =

at a very abstract level) and implement in Ada (get safety and efficienc=
y)  =

? May be an option for *some* applications.