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,beb0b7471c6440e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-24 07:17:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!b8b75.pppool.DE!not-for-mail From: dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:17:34 GMT Message-ID: <3c2745fe.1589098@news.cis.dfn.de> References: <3BFA4095.8325D016@earthlink.net> <27085883.0111201750.234ce321@posting.google.com> <3c034c88.494656@News.CIS.DFN.DE> <0cOM7.85029$XJ4.46127980@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: b8b75.pppool.de (213.7.139.117) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1009207029 20136270 213.7.139.117 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18279 Date: 2001-12-24T15:17:34+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:23:23 GMT, "Mark Lundquist" wrote: > >"Brian Rogoff" wrote in message >news:Pine.BSF.4.10.10111271642360.93360-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net... >> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Mark Lundquist wrote >> MD is a nice feature, and I like it in Lisp/Dylan, but I think its a bit >> much for a language like Ada. > >Agree, and anyhow is there a case for MD that cannot be solved using the >redispatching idiom in Ada? It seems so. But IMO redispatching (and thus an obligatory by-reference parameter passing) should be dropped anyway if the goal is "all types are tagged" [?]. Regards, Dmitry Kazakov