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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it?
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John McCabe wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:01:14 GMT, Jeffrey Carter
> <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote:
> 
> >But Ada has always had Object.Operation syntax, once you realize that
> >Object can be
> >
> >* a package
> >* a task
> >* a protected object
> 
> True, although only for the task and protected object - you can't
> consider the package as an object because it isn't an instance of a
> type.

Of course I can consider a package as an object. Just watch ... see, I
just considered the package as an object.

I don't know if we're discussing the same thing here, given that Ada
defines an object as a variable or typed constant. With that definition,
a package cannot be an object, and I agree.

If on the other hand you're referring to "Object Oriented", object
orientedness is a design attribute. One-package-per-Object is a
perfectly reasonable way to implement such a design, so I disagree.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter