b> One flaw in the Java approach is that the set of non-tagged types
b> is fixed, so if you make a a user defined Complex type it has to be
b> tagged.
Flaws are in the eye of the beholder. It doesn't seem unreasonable to
me to tag all objects in exchange for reduced implementation
complexity. If the designers of Java felt a need for it to be more
like Ada, one might presume they would have gone and written an Ada
compiler instead.
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