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!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.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> <75KTe.5$1r.0@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7VZTe.4$oo1.1@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:45:54 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.111.90 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1126197955 147.24.111.90 (Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:45:55 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:45:55 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4527 Date: 2005-09-08T09:45:54-07:00 List-Id: Simon Wright wrote: > > That was "good *OO* design". Fine. If enumeration types are not a suitable technique for implementing your good OO design, then don't use them during implementation. It shouldn't have any effect on the design. > On UML features, by the way -- a picture may be worth a thousand > words, but a sizable sequence diagram is very hard to grasp, and don't > get me started on activity diagrams! Most UML diagrams seem to have a small amount of information per diagram. Integrating large numbers of such diagrams in one's head seems less effective than using fewer diagrams with more information. -- 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