Tucker Taft wrote: > Ben Brosgol wrote: > > > John Harbaugh wrote: > > > > >This illustrates a fundamental advantage of Ada: It is difficult to > > >write correct programs that have typos. > > > > I agree in general, but there is one pitfall in the case of OOP (which by > > the way is not unique to Ada). If you misspell the name of a subprogram > > intended to override an otherwise implicitly inherited operation, then you > > do not override it even though you think you have. ... > > A pragma like "pragma Overrides(...)" would seem to be a good thing > to have here. This should go on the "list" of useful pragmas for > vendors to agree on... > > -Tuck How about function new Financial_Aid ... I know this would be a more drastic change than a pragma but it makes it absolutely clear in the subprogram declaration that this is intended to override an inherited function. Larry Hazel