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: 103376,8b8748382fcfacc1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95 Date: 2000/04/19 Message-ID: <38FD1C9E.7C2B7756@research.canon.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 612960623 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8dh37m$qef$2@wanadoo.fr> <3B5L4.1317$B43.116109@news.pacbell.net> <38FD1830.949F5E81@mindspring.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@research.canon.com.au X-Trace: cass.research.canon.com.au 956111996 23651 203.12.174.227 (19 Apr 2000 02:39:56 GMT) Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Apr 2000 02:39:56 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-19T02:39:56+00:00 List-Id: "John J. Rusnak" wrote: > > I'd have to weigh in on the opposite side. "Class" and "object" are rather > easy terms to grasp. And I can tell you through exeperience that the Ada > model has been difficult for many I have seen coming into the language to > grasp. (Some with OO backgrounds and some without). But to each their own > I suppose. > For people coming from other languages, changing the word tagged to class is going to help not zero. The problem they face is overcoming the assumptions they have made about how oo is implemented.