Re: Ada 2005?

[conradwt@runbox.com]

Hi, thanks for all your comments.  It's simply clearer to me as to what
you're doing.  Now, in regards to your example, a struct in C and C++
are very different.  For example, a struct C cannot contain functions
within its declaration.  Most programmers in the C++ community would
use a class to create C++ object types that contain methods because the
struct keyword is somewhat confusing when moving from C to C++ (i.e. do
you mean a C struct or a C++ struct).  Thus, I think that they should
not have extended 'struct' in regards to the C++ language.  I feel that
one shouldn'e get bogged down in the details of a languages syntax but
instead concentrate on the problem that they are trying to solve.  Then
making easier for one easily solve that problem in language A.  In
saying this, I feel that Smalltalk definitely has done an excellent job
in this regard.  This is from my experience of using C++, Ada, Java,
C#, VB, Eiffel, and Smalltalk.

-Conrad