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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 08:30:34 +0300
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On 14-06-08 22:36 , Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:13:11 -0700 (PDT), Dan'l Miller wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately, Ada's downcast syntax is not so obnoxiously conspicuous to
>> the human eye or to mere regular-expression-only pattern-matchers.
> 
> Downcast is not a problem in the given example. The problem is
> inconsistently implemented multi-method.

In Georg's example, the methods have a single argument, so it was not a
mixed multi-method problem. I mentioned the mixed multi-method case as
an Ada run-time error that is closer to a "missing method" error.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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