Re: XML DOM Binding for Ada 95 - matter of style

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

So things like type extension don't count? :-)

I see tagged types as the way to fully implement the Object Oriented 
paradigm in Ada. Other mechanisms in Ada could be used to support parts 
of the OO paradigm - sometimes they have to be brutally flogged into 
that service - but none really creates the full OO paradigm as do tagged 
types. Not all programs require OO nor are they best expressed in the OO 
method. I work on software like that every day. But if you have an OO 
design, I'd think that trying to beat it into submission with the blunt 
instrument of a discriminated record is not the best approach. If it is 
an OO design, create an OO implementation with the correct Ada idiom for 
that - the tagged record and its surrounding package components.

MDC

Matthew Heaney wrote:
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> The purpose of tagged records is to implement dynamic binding.
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