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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: SPARK toolset 6.1 now available
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> I would be _very_ surprised if SPARKada allowed T'Class
> (uncertainty being something you don't want in safety-related
> software).

If you have the entire program source code (which you should in a
safety-critical context), then I don't see why a dispatching call is any
more "uncertain" than a case statement.

- Bob