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: 103376,7eaf9f2597de2259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-12 10:12:23 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3BC721DA.BCBC4818@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <9q25ec0248o@drn.newsguy.com> <9q421v0bbg@drn.newsguy.com> <9q4a37$npd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9q4e59018lm@drn.newsguy.com> <9q4lje$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bc6a8ad.1988649@news.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:01:14 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14424 Date: 2001-10-12T17:01:14+00:00 List-Id: John McCabe wrote: > > >diddling with syntax makes nothing simpler > >and usually annoys more people then it helps. > > Possibly, but very few of the people I've worked with using Ada 95 > would be annoyed if the object.method syntax was included. But Ada has always had Object.Operation syntax, once you realize that Object can be * a package * a task * a protected object Not everything needs to be extensible, with compiler-hidden run-time overload resolution. If you think otherwise, then perhaps you should be using a "pure" OO language like SmallTalk. -- Jeffrey Carter