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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Q: Endless loop by dispatching
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  What was programmer of Root trying to accomplish when he said
>   type Root_Type is tagged private;
  It seems to me he was trying to say "If you declare a child type
and procedures Initialize or Finalize or Adjust, don't expect them
to be called as if Root_Type was Controlled.  If he wanted to let
derived types be Controlled, he should have said:
>   type Root_Type is new Ada.Finalization.Controlled with private;

> But to not be able to declare Leaf.Initialize
> as overriding defeats the whole point.
  Defeats what point?