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On 27/03/14 23:32, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>
> The class is a different concept to a record and should be implemented that
> way, this will also make it more familiar to others, I.e. Help foster
> adoption.

A type is the thing that matters, I think, not its data.

I can imagine a request for tagged arrays or for discriminated
enumerations. And if one continues along this path, the following
study is reiterated: What is a good selection of type construction
facilities?

The original discussion, IIRC Robert Dewar mentioning it
here, seems to have been about

    class type T is ...   -- with T'Class, too

versus

    type T is tagged ...  -- with T'class, too

the former reflecting the position of "task" and "protected".
The vote by country was not unanimous.

Another association of keywords was package types.

As someone who has had to use "classes" that extend hash table
and then use the keys for what should be operation lets me
ask for something that emphasizes abstract types. Or, "thinking
in types". The class thingy really is a sop when it is not universal.
it does *not* seem to produce a good understanding of object oriented
design, but helps create many purportedly O-O programs instead.

If you have heard about the difficulties when porting Delphi
programs to C#, even when written for .NET, raise your hands!
  ;-)