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: 103376,7eaf9f2597de2259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 01:37:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pipehawk.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:35:57 GMT Organization: Emrad Ltd Message-ID: <3bc55838.2298224@news.demon.co.uk> References: <9pif1o01btl@drn.newsguy.com> <3BBD12F1.9BED0B70@acm.org> <20011009174047.V16689-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> <9q09d801073@drn.newsguy.com> <3bc44449.9587095@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1002789368 nnrp-01:2786 NO-IDENT pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14221 Date: 2001-10-11T08:35:57+00:00 List-Id: On 10 Oct 2001 17:37:58 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote: > >john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) writes: > >> On 9 Oct 2001 18:48:24 -0700, Robert*@ >> wrote: >> >> >I wish the Ada95 designers would have introduced the class construct as in >> >> Me too but why not just: > >This issue is worked on. See AI95-00252 on >http://www.ada-auth.org/AI-SUMMARY.HTML. Interesting point by Tucker Taft: "The other prompting factor is the continual whining that Ada 95 is out of the mainstream of OOP languages because it lacks the object.operation syntax." This is true - irrespective of Ada's superiority as a language when compared to many other OO languages, very few current OO type programmers will embrace it without the object.method syntax. It is, simply, syntactic sugar, but it makes things so much easier for those of use who work with combinations of Ada and e.g. Java and C++. As far as the AIs are concerned, if anyone can point to where something like the 'class' construct I mentioned has been discussed, it would be most interesting. If not, does anyone feel it could be useful and should be discussed? If so, how do we do this? Slainthe Mhor John