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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/05/26
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In article
<Pine.BSF.4.10.9905252005460.2577-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> Incidentally, I tend to agree with you about automatic
> instantiation, and that was also discussed here. I tend to
> think that it shortens the code

generally this is an invalid argument from the Ada point of
view, without additional justification that this shortening
makes it easier to *read* and *maintain* the code.

> by eliminating noise instantiations

If this really is noise, that does not help the maintainer of
the code, then that is indeed a fair point. However many people
feel (including me) that the explicit instantiations most often
are helpful to the maintainers of the code, and that implicit
instantiations, while allowing neat things to be written, can
generate code that is over-obscure.

As always, talking about generalities is usually useless, and
especially in a case like this, where it depends very much on
the specific case, we should really have a specific case to
talk about.


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