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Subject: Re: Conditional compilation in Ada?
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"Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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[snip]
> >
> > And operations that are mistakenly not overridden become run-time
errors.
>
> Not if they're declared abstract. Then you have the same situation as
> missing cases for a variant record. Plus you don't have an escape like
> using "when others".
>

Actually in Ada I don't believe there is anything keeping you from declaring
an instance of an object that has abstract methods (unlike C++).  That was
my recollection, I created a small test program to verify and that was my
result.

Steve
(The Duck)

> >
> >> Also: If the object is declared statically, the dispatching may happen
> >> statically.
> >
> >
> > This is true, but it seems that the nature of OP's problem would prevent
> > this.
> >