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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: Re: Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !!
Date: 1999/10/15
Date: 1999-10-15T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn80dobi.q4.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3806DC34.1513E8B1@frqnet.de

* Andreas Winckler wrote:
>14 begin
>15     pointer := new type_b;
>16     type_b(pointer.all).second_field := 1;
>17 end inheritance_polymorphism;
>
>See line 16, the type of the referenced object must be known in advance.
>With "pointer.second_field :=1" the compiler fails. It seems that the
>strong typing restricts the features of polyormism in Ada. Any comments?
>Am I wrong?

Yep. To access data, please provide functions. They dispach as required for
polymorphism.




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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-15  0:00 Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !! Chango Cho
1999-10-15  0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-10-15  0:00   ` Lutz Donnerhacke [this message]
1999-10-15  0:00   ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-15  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-15  0:00       ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-18  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-23  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-24  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-24  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-26  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-25  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-26  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-18  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-19  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-20  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-21  0:00             ` Simon Wright
1999-10-21  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-21  0:00             ` Paul Duquennoy
1999-10-22  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-15  0:00   ` tmoran
1999-10-15  0:00     ` tmoran
1999-10-15  0:00   ` Stephane Barbey
1999-10-15  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-18  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-18  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-18  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-15  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-15  0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
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