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From: Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95
Date: 2000/04/19
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> Jean argued that Ada 95 would be far more accessible to the
> object oriented cognoscenti if it was willing to embrace the
> term class more enthusiastically, and he suggested that
> 
>   type x is tagged record ....
> 
> be replaced by
> 
>   class type x is record ....
> 

I would have preferred this notation too.
1. "class type t is ..."  and  "t'class"   would be more clear than  
"type t is tagged ..."   and   "t'class"
2. I have to write   task type t is    and not    type t is concurrent
...