Re: Package Question [Newbie]

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

You can use packages to create classes, but the two are not exactly
synonimous. Packages will do a lot more than just build classes.

The "this" thing in C++ is sort of a kludge (IMHO) because everything in C++
wants to be a kind of binary operator function. (the syntax and semantics of
all this are insane!) Really, you are better off not trying to find
analogies to C++ in Ada because the concepts of how a language should work
are very different. If you want to do OOP in Ada, learn about tagged types
and subprograms within packages and you'll be well on your way.

Look at http://www.adapower.org/ for all sorts of resources to help you
learn Ada. This newsgroup will be very helpful to you as well.

MDC
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"JM" <jmillard1@homey_remove_y.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm still very green wrt to Ada but after looking at few tutorials a
> have a couple of quick questions/observations. My background is C++ so
> I'm grasping for commonalities.
>
> 1. It  looks as though basically the package is a class?
>
> 2.  And from a C++ point of view the package procedures are static
> functions that operate on references to the package? So basically
> 'this' doesn't exist?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason