Re: Package Instances???

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Depending on how one builds it, a C++ class or class template
can fulfill the role of an Ada package, record, or tagged type.
That's just the way it is.

To examine equivalent capabilities in the two languages, you
*must* use a C++ class to emulate an Ada package, otherwise
there will be all sorts of things that you can do in Ada that
won't be possible in C++.

It is simplistic and wrong to argue that a C++ class is just
like an Ada tagged type. That just is not how classes are used
in modern C++. It may appear to be cobbled together because of
the C heritage, and because a lot of the idioms were discovered
late in the game, but the non-tagged-type usages are at least
as important and useful as the OO stuff.