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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 2000/01/04
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> A pretty big gap! 

Yes.

>...It means for example that if you have
> multiple implementations of sets, that you cannot have
> a parameterless function Empty that returns the (appropriate)
> empty set.

Even worse, it means that literals can't be overloaded.  Of course, C++
doesn't even *have* enumeration literals of different enumeration types,
anyway.  And for numeric literals, the C++ rule requires that each
literal be marked with a character that indicates its type, which is a
kludge (and certainly wouldn't work in Ada with tits capability of
having many numeric types).

- Bob