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From: amir@iae.nsk.su (Amir Yantimirov)
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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message news:<mevu3v04int4alno6fms6llom6vnhlaq0i@4ax.com>...
> I didn't say that. I said that the idea that a type could be defined
> by a set of operations used in some [generic] body, is a bad one, and
> then it contradics to DbC, separating interface and implementation and
> number of other principles considered valuable for software
> development.

Agreed with that. I always see 'class X' in template specification as sort of
forward declaration. :)

One of my paragraphs: http://www174.pair.com/yamir/programming/interfaces.htm
is written directly from your discussion.

And I agreed with Hyman Rosen in a sense that C++ is perfectly consistent in it's
behaviour here.

Amir Yantimirov