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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/29
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In article <7g8drh$1q00$1@odie.mcleod.net>,
  RSWhite@nospam.somewhere.ia.us (Robert S. White) wrote:
> In article <7g8390$225c@drn.newsguy.com>, bill@nospam
says...
> >
> >All what we know, is that looking at something written
> >as a[i] tells
> >right away that it is an array, while with a(i) you are
> >not sure what
> >it is in Ada.
>
>   And just why do you need to know the implementation
>  when you are just
> an oo user of the object?   Can we say "loosely coupled"
> here?

What has oo got to do with this. It is just a matter of
data abstraction. Abstract data types and objects are not
the same thing!


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