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From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: tagged types extensions - language design question
Date: 2000/01/28
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Matthew Heaney wrote:

> In article <s91denm47q5148@corp.supernews.com> , "Vladimir Olensky"
> <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >>Why don't you just declare these types in separate packages?
> >
> > This is  :
> > 1.  an additional step
> > 2.  an additional package
> > 3.  an additional level of inheritance.
>
> But you'd have the "additional package" in other OOP languages too.  In
> another language you'd have to declare two "classes," which means two
> modules.  Same as Ada.  (Although I think you can nest classes in C++,
> right?)
>

My understanding of Eiffel (not the greatest!) is that it would handle THIS
PROBLEM gracefully in one step.  My problem with it is the lack of control over
direct (random access) I/O.