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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6b6619eb9cada212 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Matthew Heaney" Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ Date: 1999/12/14 Message-ID: <3855e2ae_4@news1.prserv.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560418815 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <01bf37fb$a91afb60$0564a8c0@IS-D2D04C.test> <829rbv$a8m$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <01bf3e32$0b9dc880$022a6282@dieppe> <385112AE.7E2CFA9@rdel.co.uk> <3855af39.0@news.pacifier.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net X-Trace: 14 Dec 1999 06:24:46 GMT, 129.37.62.192 Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services Mime-version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3855af39.0@news.pacifier.com> , "DuckE" wrote: > When looking at tagged record definitions and the methods defined following > the records, careful study and knowledge of "freezing rules" is required. Not really. The primitive operations of a type are defined in the enclosing package, unless the type is frozen prematurely. But in the latter case, the compiler will tell you. > I would have much preferred a syntax where the start and end of an object and > its methods are explicitly defined. Yes, you have that syntax already. The package in which the type is declared demarcates the primitive operations of the type from the operations that are nonprimitive. -- The new standards [for science curricula in Kansas] do not forbid the teaching of evolution, but the subject will no longer be included in statewide tests for evaluating students--a virtual guarantee, given the realities of education, that this central concept of biology will be diluted or eliminated, thus reducing courses to something like chemistry without the periodic table, or American history without Lincoln. Stephen Jay Gould, Time, 23 Aug 1999