From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: Inheritance versus Generics
Date: 1997/04/29
Date: 1997-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3365EF16.443C@elca-matrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.862005625@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> Michael said
>
> <<May I add that the same functionality would have been achieved had packages
> been either first class (makable into arrays) or second class (passable
> as generic parameters) objects.>>
>
> I assume you are aware of all the subtle semantic problems in doing this.
> This is an issue that has been discussed very extensively during the
> design process, and the issues are well known and well understood, and
> the consensus was that package types are simply too much additional
> complexity ...
I have done some extensive work on that topic (package types as
classes), and I disagree. You can find my proposal at
<http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Team/MW/Ada-Extensions/Ada-Extensions.html>
On the other hand, I would be very interested in knowing the arguments
that lead to the consensus that rejected package types. Is there a
paper, report, or anything ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-04-29 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-24 0:00 Inheritance versus Generics Craig Smith
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-04-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-28 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-29 0:00 ` bertrand
1997-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-29 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-05-02 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-29 0:00 ` Mats Weber [this message]
1997-05-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-26 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-04-28 0:00 ` Martin Lorentzon
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1997-04-27 0:00 tmoran
1997-05-03 0:00 tmoran
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