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From: Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: What is a class in Ada ?
Date: 2000/02/13
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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.
>