Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:09:46 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> Yes, that works. But still, you probably don't have too many Open operations 
> that close objects. :-) As I said, I've found that it's common that you need 
> to override all of the Open operations (because they all need to set a new 
> component, for instance, or call a different Open routine that does that), 
> or the original versions are all good enough. Perhaps that's different if 
> multiple inheritance gets involved, but it certainly seems true for single 
> inheritance.

But there should be no Open operation at all. The object must be functional
in each its state. Open is not an operation it is a part of the object's
constructor.

This is another language problem that Ada forces you to introduce Open,
which adds unusable object states (not yet opened object), must be
overridden (but there is no way to spell that requirement), must call to
the parent's Open (but. again, no way to ensure that).

Not every instance of bad design is due to the programmer's malice.

P.S. With MD Open will dispatch on File and on Path (path must be MI from
character set and a path|plain name|volume and absolute|relative
hierarchies) and, possibly, on additional parameter types. All variants
must be overridden!..

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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