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: Re: (shorter and new) programming by extension Date: 1999/02/25 Message-ID: <7b4oa7$8pj$1@its.hooked.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 448515854 References: <79fct8$9k3$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1103_918264881@DZOG-CHEN> <36cdb012.580716@news.pacbell.net> <7av52o$62g@news3.newsguy.com> <7avc0i$cnb$1@its.hooked.net> <7b1kdb$13k6@news3.newsguy.com> <7b22f5$1mrg@news1.newsguy.com> <7b49mm$t7q@news1.newsguy.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: Whole Earth Networks News Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Samuel Mize wrote in message <7b49mm$t7q@news1.newsguy.com>... >I'm too pedantic to leave adequate-enough alone, so I've refined my >example of non-object-oriented programming by extension. I integrated >that into the text I wrote on that earlier. I hope somebody out there >finds this of interest. Thank you very much for your explanations, Sam. I gather (though I haven't read your last message through yet) that programming by extension is essentially the mechanics part of OOP, without the data and methods organization part (which I gather is best expressed in Ada using the package concept). I hope I've got that right, since I feel like I've had a major "oh yeah!" breakthrough. I never thought of separating the two parts before, although seeing it written out like that I recognize that I've done forms of the latter organizing in my non-OO programming.