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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








  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-23  0:00 UTC|newest]

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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