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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47def5aa7b3182bd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Mike Silva" Subject: Question (was Re: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?) Date: 1999/02/23 Message-ID: <7avc0i$cnb$1@its.hooked.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447669144 References: <79fct8$9k3$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1103_918264881@DZOG-CHEN> <36cdb012.580716@news.pacbell.net> <7av52o$62g@news3.newsguy.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: Whole Earth Networks News Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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