From: stt@henning.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Example of object oriented Ada95 requested!
Date: 1996/01/08
Date: 1996-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DKv8pA.8Hr.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn4eumdg.4d.cabal@TerpTavern.umd.edu
Arcadio A. Sincero (cabal@TerpTavern.umd.edu) wrote:
: ...
: Under the section entitled "Hierarchial Libraries", Dr.Herro talks about
: "child packages". From what I can tell, this seems to be Ada95's idea of
: what inheritance and polymorphism. Am I right? ...
Nope. "Tagged" types, with type extension and class-wide types, are what
provide inheritance and polymorphism in Ada 95.
Child packages/hierarchical libraries are namespace/visibility
management mechanisms, somewhat analogous to C++ namespaces or
Modula-3 modules.
: ...
: Arcadio Alivio Sincero, Jr.
: Sophomore, Computer Science Major at the University of Maryland
: at College Park
: Email: lotu@wam.umd.edu, WWW: <still working on it!>
-Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com
Intermetrics, Inc.
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1996-01-08 0:00 ` Example of object oriented Ada95 requested! John Herro
1996-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-01-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
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