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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Problem Eliminating constructors
Date: 18 Jan 2003 15:19:34 +0000
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porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) writes:

> package A is
> 
>   type A_Type is tagged
>     record
>       X: Integer;
>     end;
>     
>   function Create(X: Integer) return A_Type; -- guess what is the body

Could you make Create return A_Type'Class? (it means you probably have
to initialize at creation:

  declare
     My_B : A.A_Type'Class := B.Create (...);

> end A;