Re: ADA Objects Help!

[emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)]

>Actually, your example is backwards.  An imperative in English has
>an implicit subject (usually 'you', that is, the person being commanded)
>and an explicit object (in this case, 'lawn').  So the Ada code would
>be:
>  mow(robot, lawn);
>and the C++ would be:
>  robot.mow(lawn);

In this example, the 'robot' is an active entity.  Therefore the
"appropriate" Ada abstraction is:
	task robot is
	  entry Mow (location : large_grassy_space);
	end robot;
and we end up with (surprise!):
	robot.mow (lawn);

				dave
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