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"sk" <noname@myob.com> wrote in message
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> > What about the operator overloading possibilities in ada?
>
> type My_Natural is new Natural;
>
> function "+"(A, B : My_Natural) return My_Natural is
> begin
>     return 0;
> end "+";
>
> Yep this is fun too. If this definition is not in an
> obvious location it can take a long time to debug
> when this bites you.

Well, you must be a bit slow debugging-wise ;)
It's a very nice, well-determined, 100% reproducible
bug. Should only take a few seconds to trace through
the code and see where it comes from. I only wish
all the bugs were that easy...