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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Limited_Controlled, orthogonality and related issues
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"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> writes:

> I say "almost never" because in theory, since the private part or body
> of P or of a child of P (or the visible part of a private child of P)
> *could* derive a type extension from the tagged type and dispatch.  But
> I'd guess that such usage would be rare.

I think it's quite common for a child package to extend types in the
parent package, and override operations.

- Bob