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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Conditional compilation in Ada?
Date: 19 Nov 2004 21:35:58 +0000
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"Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net> writes:

> "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> wrote in message
> news:419CE3F5.6010906@mailinator.com...
> [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.

Sounds like a buggy compiler! suggest you have another go ..

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.