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From: Bill Greene <wrg@Ganymede.com>
Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95
Date: 2000/04/19
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Jeff Susanj wrote:
> 
> In OO a class is data and the operations associated with that data.
> Therefore, Ada doesn't explicitly have classes because the data and the
> operations are not explicitly bound together.  ...

This is the definition of an abstract data type.  Ada certainly does
support ADTs via the package mechanism.
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