Schizoid Classes

[Lionel Draghi <Lionel.nospam.Draghi@Ada-France.org>]

There is an interresting paper, "Schizoid Classes", in the september 
issue of the ACM Queue magazine, from Rodney Bates, about class and 
module semantic beeing merged in Java and C++.

Here is just an excerpt:
"Putting class variables and methods into a class is attempting to make 
an object type into both a type and a module. Compared with separate 
constructs, it is harder to use for either purpose alone or for both 
purposes simultaneously. It adds huge and gratuitous complexity to a 
programming language, in a world where most working programmers don't 
understand their language, anyway."

And:
"The best-designed languages give you two abstraction tools - a module 
and an object type - each of which serves its own purpose reasonably well."

And, unfortunatly, Ada is not even mentioned.

-- 
Lionel Draghi