On Wed, 13 May 1998, Stanley Allen wrote: ... many interesting things snipped away ... > > (This is the kind of thing that makes me wish > for a truly advanced OOP in Ada book, something > that delves into all aspects of the subject. Two books. I have had the privilege of being a reviewer of Moti Ben-Ari's forthcoming book on Software Engineering with Ada from John Wiley. It has many good examples, fully coded, for OO issues. Also, I have a manuscript in progress that I hope will be finished in July in which I am dealing such issues in greater depth in the the context of object-oriented programming. Also, Dr. John Barnes, in an off-hand comment regarding some other topic, mentioned that he intends to expand the coverage of this topic along with storage-pool management the next revision of his book. Since the topic of finalization has become something of a "hot topic" recently, I am also preparing a column for JOOP to deal with it. The input on this thread from Tucker, Tom Moran, and many others has helped me consider what I should include in that column. Thanks to everyone for their contribution. Richard Riehle