Re: Ada95 OOP Questions

[eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <dewar.839593114@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

  > If you propose a style rule "never use feature X", then it is quite likely
  > the case that you are simply unaware of some important use of feature X.
  > For example, I have now seen several Ada environments in which the Ada
  > style rule is "never use unchecked conversion", and as a result, pieces
  > of the program are written in C which could perfectly well be written in
  > Ada. 

   Yes, Unchecked_Conversion is only needed in a very few places, but
if you are sending data down a serial pipe, you probably need to use
it.*  Similarly, the only place that gotos seem to be needed is for
implementing finite state machines.  But they are NECESSARY for
implementing finite state machines, so in they stay.

*Yes, I know that Ada 95 has 'READ and 'WRITE.  But if you have to
define your own read and write routines?  See 13.13.2(36-40).
--

					Robert I. Eachus

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