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: 103376,99f33f51845a7793 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-02 09:19:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!chnws02.mediaone.net!chnws06.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.8.202!typhoon.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BE2D5C3.6E81D65B@mediaone.net> From: Ed Falis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 'withing' problem References: <3be27344$0$227$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:19:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.60.18.249 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 1004721557 24.60.18.249 (Fri, 02 Nov 2001 12:19:17 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 12:19:17 EST Organization: Road Runner Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15675 Date: 2001-11-02T17:19:17+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > Mutual dependancies of this sort in my book are a classic sign of a sloppy > design. Thus we cope with this problem by cleaning up our design when this > happens. I believe the original poster said he was moving (automatically?) code from a language such as Java to Ada, where the lack of spec and implementation separation leads naturally to mutually dependent classes. In such languages, this is not necessarily bad design. - Ed