From: Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: What is a class in Ada ?
Date: 2000/02/13
Date: 2000-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38A6CB7E.F1A1CCEC@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gUWo4.577$zE2.20127@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net
i only know "orthogonal" as meaning 'right-angled' - what do you mean by it in this
context?
Matthew Heaney wrote:
> <snip>
> There is a slight difference, however, because in Ada "type" and
> "module" are orthogonal language features. The primitive operations
> ("member functions") for a tagged type (record) aren't declared in the
> record itself. Rather, they are declared in the same module in which
> the record is declared.
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-12 0:00 What is a class in Ada ? G
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-02-13 0:00 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
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