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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8c424d8135e68278 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-12 10:51:42 PST From: "Sergey Koshcheyev" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada2005 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:31:38 +0100 Organization: Czech Technical University Message-ID: <9v87qe$2cpm$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz> References: <6ZMR7.38074$ER5.458476@rwcrnsc52> NNTP-Posting-Host: aa126.dkm.cz X-Trace: ns.felk.cvut.cz 1008181905 78646 62.24.92.126 (12 Dec 2001 18:31:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ns.felk.cvut.cz NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:31:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!opentransit.net!wanadoo.fr!teaser.fr!feed.ac-versailles.fr!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!news.cesnet.cz!crax.cesnet.cz!news.felk.cvut.cz!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17856 Date: 2001-12-12T19:31:38+01:00 List-Id: "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:bbNR7.59101$xS6.96194@www.newsranger.com... > In article <6ZMR7.38074$ER5.458476@rwcrnsc52>, tmoran@acm.org says... > > That issue really has nothing to do with why the feature exists in C++, which is > to provide for class-wide constants. Actually, the const fields in objects are more similar to record discriminants in Ada in that you set them at construction time and can't change them later. C++ has class-wide constants too (static const). Sergey. > > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. > However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.