From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,8b8748382fcfacc1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95 Date: 2000/04/21 Message-ID: <8dp8ut$j9n$1@wanadoo.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 613901030 References: <8dh37m$qef$2@wanadoo.fr> <3B5L4.1317$B43.116109@news.pacbell.net> <38FD1830.949F5E81@mindspring.com> <38FD1C9E.7C2B7756@research.canon.com.au> <8dldqi$mb7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38FE365D.31C893A6@acm.org> <8dmjsq$vm9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38FF3914.839040E2@earthlink.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 956311325 19767 193.250.43.144 (21 Apr 2000 10:02:05 GMT) Organization: Adalog X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2000 10:02:05 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-21T10:02:05+00:00 List-Id: Charles Hixson a �crit dans le message : 38FF3914.839040E2@earthlink.net... > > My original definition of an Object (I was coming to C++ from C after being > exposed to Apple's Object Pascal) was: > An object is a data structure combined with the methods defined to access it. It > is made useful by inheritance. This seems to imply that an object is not "useful" unless you use inheritance. I'd like some evidence to support that claim (the fact that many gurus do it is not supporting evidence to me). -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog