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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf469c89f73f91d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-23 23:39:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C78998A.10006@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020218 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Package Instances??? References: <721b6d80.0202131302.1ccce2ed@posting.google.com> <3C6BFAFC.7060902@mail.com> <3C73F5F6.7050704@mail.com> <3C7487D6.5060603@mail.com> <3C7676AF.9020404@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 07:39:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.251.10 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1014536393 162.83.251.10 (Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:39:53 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:39:53 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20329 Date: 2002-02-24T07:39:53+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > What I *am* claiming is that if you want to do something similar to a C++ > class in Ada, that attempting to do it with a package is going to lead to > disappointing results. Using a package in conjunction with a tagged type is > the correct idiom in Ada for representing a "class" (general concept - not > C++ class). Yes, that is exactly what I believe! I think it's Matthew Heaney who is arguing otherwise.