Re: What is a class in Ada ?

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <38A6CB7E.F1A1CCEC@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>, Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> writes:

I know "orthogonal" as standing for entirely unrelated systems of
classification.  By example, absent proof the the contrary, I would guess:

	The political parties to which people belong is orthogonal
		to whether they are right or left handed

	The programming language people prefer is orthogonal to
		the color of their hair.

etc.

Larry Kilgallen

> i only know "orthogonal" as meaning 'right-angled' - what do you mean by it in this
> context?
> 
> Matthew Heaney wrote:
> 
>> <snip>
>> There is a slight difference, however, because in Ada "type" and
>> "module" are orthogonal language features.  The primitive operations
>> ("member functions") for a tagged type (record) aren't declared in the
>> record itself.  Rather, they are declared in the same module in which
>> the record is declared.
>>
>