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-Thread: 103376,901038687c38f61c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Idiom for a class and an object in Ada References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:09:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.69 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1098151781 63.184.105.69 (Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:09:41 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:09:41 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5422 Date: 2004-10-19T02:09:41+00:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > generic > Line : Number; > package AD_Converter is > function OK return Boolean; > function Get return Value; > end; > > package Heat is new AD_Converter (123); > package Noise is new AD_Converter (456); > package Wind is new AD_Converter (789); > > -- You can't get more "static" than that! Or simple. Or Ada-like. The other suggestions look too much like C++ for my taste. -- Jeff Carter "Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" Monty Python's Life of Brian 80