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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:51:38 +0200
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Date: 2015-07-21T21:51:38+02:00
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:51:29 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
> 
>> On 15-07-21 19:24 , David Botton wrote:
>>>> if you checked the status of Modula-2 R10?
>>>> (https://bitbucket.org/trijezdci/m2r10)
>>>
>>> My hobby interest for the front end is about Ada (perhaps fixing the
>>> OO syntax, but still Ada).
>>
>> If you remove "tagged", as you said in another post, in my opinion it
>> is no longer Ada (post 95).
> 
>    abstract class type A is
>       procedure P1 (This : in out T) is abstract;
>    end A;
> 
>    class type T is new A with
>       overriding procedure P1 (This : in out A);
>       not overriding function F1 (This : A) return Integer;
>    private
>       V : Integer;
>    end T;
> 
> etc etc; not a million miles from Ada as we know it.

Conceptually it is. Operations do not belong to types.

Then everybody agreed that the syntax of protected objects was a mistake.
Why repeating this flawed syntax for classes? It is again about
fundamentals, privacy is not a type property. It is of a module.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de