From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM
	autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,18f7f6e041b3e0bf
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-02 08:49:36 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool0902.news.uu.net!not-for-mail
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:49:34 -0400
From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question
References: <mailman.1027489082.2047.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
 <wccsn1z1wjj.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
 <aibbth$133ln5$1@ID-77047.news.dfncis.de>
 <1028219309.986605@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>
 <aidqqv$13dq4m$1@ID-77047.news.dfncis.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Organization: KBC Financial Products
Message-ID: <1028303374.179416@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>
Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@fixedcost.nyc.kbcfp.com
X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10
X-Trace: 1028303375  250 204.253.250.10
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27615
Date: 2002-08-02T11:49:34-04:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote:
> So in C++ int will never be a class, worse to C++.

It's never going be a class in Ada either.

 > I doubt that it is worth effors to keep objects Ada
 > and C++ compatible.

I think that the GNAT creators would disagree with you.
As far as I know, they make corresponding Ada and C++
objects layout compatible. Perhaps one of them will
explain why.