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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,99f33f51845a7793 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-20 12:35:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttln1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mark Lundquist" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3be27344$0$227$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> <3BE42900.7590E899@adaworks.com> <3be65f4c$0$237$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> <3BF6E4DF.FA47ACDB@adaworks.com> <3BF93F0F.D5E4D0B7@Raytheon.com> <3BFA6BDC.26E7557E@Raytheon.com> <3bfa84ca$0$8514$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> Subject: Re: 'withing' problem [code generation] X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:35:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.56.237 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttln1.wa.home.com 1006288545 24.248.56.237 (Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:35:45 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:35:45 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16752 Date: 2001-11-20T20:35:45+00:00 List-Id: "David Crocker" wrote in message news:3bfa84ca$0$8514$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net... > > The nicest solution is the one used by Java (and by our own product) - no > restriction at all on forward referencing classes/types, or on packages > referring to each other (except for absurd cases like 2 classes inheriting > from each other). This is the way all programming languages should go, IMO. OK -- but isn't Java's solution more of just a side-benefit of being a by-reference language? It seems like there are some underlying trade-offs :-) Cheers, -- Mark Lundquist http://members.home.com/mlundquist2/consulting