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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7eaf9f2597de2259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-14 13:34:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!194.213.69.151!news.algonet.se!algonet!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:34:20 +0200 Organization: Centre for Chaos and Turbulence Studies, Niels Bohr Institute Message-ID: <3BC9F6CC.E41BE18A@nbi.dk> References: <9q25ec0248o@drn.newsguy.com> <9q421v0bbg@drn.newsguy.com> <9q4d850163k@drn.newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: alf.nbi.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1003091661 9534 130.225.212.55 (14 Oct 2001 20:34:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 20:34:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: fo,da,no,sv,is,de,fr,en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14484 Date: 2001-10-14T22:34:20+02:00 List-Id: Robert: > You can argue for years which is the better notation, but the fact remains > that the Java/C++ notation for OO is the common and the popular one and the > one most programmer are used to, not the Ada notation. Nobody claims that the C++ notation is less popular. The object prefix notation has a very serious limitation, which would actually break quite a few of my programs. Using the object prefix notation, it is not possible to dispatch on the function result type. Jacob PS: Millions of lemmings can't be wrong, ... -- http://www.ldraw.org/download/start/linux/ Kom i gang med LEGO CAD p� Linux.