From: "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net>
Subject: Question (was Re: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?)
Date: 1999/02/23
Date: 1999-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7avc0i$cnb$1@its.hooked.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7av52o$62g@news3.newsguy.com
Samuel Mize wrote in message <7av52o$62g@news3.newsguy.com>...
<...>
>Remember, tagged types are NOT a facility for object-oriented
>programming. Together with other facilities in the language, they
>support that idiom. However, tagged types are a facility for
>programming by extension, in a much more general form than many
>object-oriented languages provide.
This intrigues me greatly, but being an Ada neophyte and not having that
much OOP background in general I don't know what it means. Would anybody
care to offer an explanation, or point me in the direction of one. Thanks
much.
Mike Silva
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-05 0:00 How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95? Norman Ramsey
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Mike Silva [this message]
1999-02-24 0:00 ` (long) programming by extension (was: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?) Samuel Mize
1999-02-24 0:00 ` (long) programming by extension Samuel Mize
1999-02-25 0:00 ` (shorter and new) " Samuel Mize
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Question (was Re: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?) Nick Roberts
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-06 0:00 ` How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95? Matthew Heaney
1999-02-06 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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