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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !!
Date: 1999/10/26
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In article <wccr9ijqr6q.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> It's interesting to me that you like the heavy block-statement
syntax,
> but you gripe about the heavy procedure syntax (as compared to
COBOL).
> The actual syntactic overhead is the same, except for one
extra blank
> line in the procedure case.


No, the procedure problem is *FAR* more fundamental. The
requirement that you declare procedures before they are used is
not just syntactic heaviness, it is just plain wrong when you
are using procedures as refinements.


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