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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Another good URL for all you C++ haters
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 12:11:11 +0200
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Tucker Taft <stt@avercom.net> writes:

> Ada requires the full definition of a private type to be
> in the package spec, but it doesn't require the declaration
> of "helper" functions the way C++ does.  Helper functions
> can be declared in the package body, without perturbing the spec.

If you do this, these helper subprograms aren't primitive operations,
are they?  In C++, it is possible to have private virtual member
functions.  I'm not sure if you really need them in C++ (perhaps for
something RTTI-related things?), and you can probably use class-wide
programming to achieve the same effect in Ada.