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From: "Shawn M. Root" <smroot@orbitworld.net>
Subject: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/05/20
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Date: 1999-05-20T00:00:00+00:00
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Greetings,

    I've been lurking on this newsgroup for about a year now and would
first like to thank all of you who contribute to this group regularly
for your very interesting and informative discussions.  These
discussions have led me to a better, though still very limited,
understanding of Ada.

    I would like to ask a question, however.  In a recent thread
entitled "A question for my personal knowledge" some people were saying
that the Ada OO mechanism was counterintuitive.  I tend to agree.  This
concern was dismissed by others as being merely "syntactic sugar", and
claims were made that the Ada mechanism is actually easier to use than
the C++ style.  These arguments seemed misplaced to me.  I thought that
one of the goals of Ada was to focus on the reader of the code, not the
writer.  Therefore if this "syntactic sugar" makes code easier to
understand, then it would be a good thing, right?  Perhaps I've missed
the point, but it seems like a Class construct would fit in well with
the Ada way of doing things.  It seems like a logical evolution from a
package, to a generic package, to a class.  The syntax would even be
similar since (at least where I work) use clauses are rarely used.
We write
Package_Name.Procedure;
so what's wrong with
Class_Name.Method;

Maybe I just don't understand the issues.  I would appreciate any help
in making this clear.

Thanks.
--
Shawn M. Root