From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,81bb2ce65a3240c3 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.227.230 with SMTP id sd6mr7707336pbc.8.1335494281281; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni102815pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: ytomino Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <21303184.864.1335494280519.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbgg10> References: <3637793.35.1335340026327.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynfi5> <9af5eaaa-1c48-4455-a8e8-39dd9ee8092d@ot8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> <3324774.1793.1335453581565.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yncc41> NNTP-Posting-Host: 118.6.224.39 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335494281 17027 127.0.0.1 (27 Apr 2012 02:38:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:38:01 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <3324774.1793.1335453581565.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yncc41> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=118.6.224.39; posting-account=Mi71UQoAAACnFhXo1NVxPlurinchtkIj User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-04-26T19:38:00-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, April 27, 2012 12:19:41 AM UTC+9, Adam Beneschan wrote: >=20 > I'm not sure that's an indicator of bad design, in this case. It seems q= uite plausible that the interface types, I1 and I2, were designed by people= who had nothing to do with each other, working on totally different open-s= ource projects; and it happened that they came up with the same name and pr= ofile for one of their methods. You probably can't attribute that to bad d= esign. Now someone else wants to make use of reusable open-source software= and they want to define a type that implements both the I1 and I2 interfac= es. I don't think it seems all that far-fetched. I'm only a little famili= ar with other languages (such as D-Flat) that support interfaces, but from = what little I know, it does seem like a definite problem in those languages= . Great!=20 You said all things that I wanted to say. And, some languages such as C# has tackled the problem that a base-class is= changed independently of derived-classes. Method resolution clause is one = of these solutions.