From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Finalization of library level tasks Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:52:19 +0200 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <3b736ddf-0807-4781-a973-6164280faae7@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:52:19 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d3e4fda162fd6a359b561d2344b044c6"; logging-data="30525"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19wx0ylWLD5l/DWKWJZIrfH08A2PeHWmXw=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 In-Reply-To: <3b736ddf-0807-4781-a973-6164280faae7@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-US Cancel-Lock: sha1:wwmCpIP+RxqULlZXNPBbxRYR1rU= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51842 Date: 2018-04-30T18:52:19+02:00 List-Id: On 04/30/2018 02:27 PM, AdaMagica wrote: > > In short: If you look inside a class-wide object, you'll find inside an object of a specific type within this class (as Randy said in a previous post). What's the property of this specific object seen as a class-wide object that's not a property of the specific object? About the only difference is that operations dispatch with a class-wide parameter and don't with a parameter of a specific type. Op (Parent'Class (X) ); and Op (X); end up executing the same code. That Kazakov says they don't is probably an indication that he, as he often does, is not talking about Ada. -- Jeff Carter "You couldn't catch clap in a brothel, silly English K...niggets." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 19