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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,896d86ef3723978c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" Subject: Re: maintenance of overriding subprograms Date: 1997/09/08 Message-ID: <34145A2F.3659@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 270779755 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) References: <340C2EA5.B9F@gsfc.nasa.gov> <341065D7.4D41@gsfc.nasa.gov> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 Organization: Hughes Defense Communications Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Well, I suppose OOP-style programming is pretty hopeless without some > sort of tool that can show you the complete interface, with all the > inherited stuff included. If your names are well-chosen, and your hierarchy well-designed, wouldn't it be unnecessary (except for the occasional extreme case) to hunt down a lot of other stuff to understand the item at hand? Conversely, if one has to study all the ancestors in great detail to do anything with a particular descendant, haven't we lost much of the reduced work alleged to be acheived by inheritance? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be wwgrol AT pseserv3.fw.hac.com Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------