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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
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Date: 2012-04-28T10:03:37+02:00
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:40:50 -0700 (PDT), sbelmont700@gmail.com wrote:

> On Friday, April 27, 2012 7:18:34 PM UTC-4, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
>> Note that Ada 95 did that (implicitly) for the Initialize/Adjust/Finalize 
>> routines of type Controlled. We made that more explicit in Ada 2005, but 
>> that did not reflect any language change. This is another example of a 
>> "hook".
> 
> But this, along with the other hooks, seems like a relic of a
> single-inheritance version of Ada.  A much (well, perhaps just slightly)
> better version would be to split things up into multiple interfaces.

No, construction is not inheritance. Constructor is not a method.
Initialize/Adjust/Finalize are hooks called from constructor and destructor
proper. It is very unfortunate that Ada dress them up as primitive
operations which they are not.

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