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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d84bea4ad7f9234a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-06 05:54:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B45A87F.6B2074C3@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Package Question [Newbie] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 12:54:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.122.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 994424092 158.252.122.200 (Fri, 06 Jul 2001 05:54:52 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 05:54:52 PDT X-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 05:52:28 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9544 Date: 2001-07-06T12:54:52+00:00 List-Id: JM wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm still very green wrt to Ada but after looking at few tutorials a > have a couple of quick questions/observations. My background is C++ so > I'm grasping for commonalities. > > 1. It looks as though basically the package is a class? > > 2. And from a C++ point of view the package procedures are static > functions that operate on references to the package? So basically > 'this' doesn't exist? A book written to aid those experienced with C and C++ in transitioning to Ada 95 is "Ada 95 for C and C++ Programmers" by Simon Johnston. ISBN 0-201-40363-3. Marc A. Criley Senior Staff Engineer Quadrus Corporation www.quadruscorp.com