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-Thread: 103376,db88d0444fafe8eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Surprise in array concatenation References: <1125544603.561847.32140@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <14muavojz308w.1ouv7xin79rqu$.dlg@40tude.net> <87fyspgqrm.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <75KTe.5$1r.0@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:46:25 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.111.90 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1126133187 147.24.111.90 (Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:46:27 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:46:27 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4513 Date: 2005-09-07T15:46:25-07:00 List-Id: adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: > > I have heard it expressed at some software-oriented conferences that > enumerated types represent an old-fashioned way of thinking about > software design. Some in the OO community believe that, because > enumerated types are not extensible, they actually thwart good OO > design. How can an implementation technique thwart good design? -- Jeffrey Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python and the Holy Grail E-mail: jeffrey_r_carter-nr [commercial-at] raytheon [period | full stop] com