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From: nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison)
Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract)
Date: 1997/09/16
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Robert Dewar wrote:

:Don said
:
:<<I think you're getting your contexts confused here. My comment was made in
:the specific context of *no* prior declarations.>>
:
:Yes, but no one writes Ada programs of any significant complexity with
:no prior declarations, so your observation is about as useful as one which
:notes that conditionals in Ada are awkward in the context of avoiding
:the use of if statements.

Not quite. Unlike if-statements, you can actually *do without* prior 
declarations. So, the analogy is a spurious one.

(Perhaps we'll hear from someone claiming they can get by with just 
case-statements! :)


It would be interesting to study the use of analogies in Usenet discussions.
My casual observation is that they're often used to "refute" opponents' 
arguments when the user has exhausted all genuine arguments of their own.
Non-analogous analogies then fit the bill admirably by falsely associating 
the opposing position with the ridiculous.

Present company excepted, of course. :)


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