From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Invocation of Shadowed Implementations in Ada 95
Date: 1996/09/05
Date: 1996-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Sep5152213@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Sep4.163433.1@eisner
In article <1996Sep4.163433.1@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> Although it is in the spirit of Ada syntax, it seems to me inferior
> to the Macintosh Pascal approach of:
>
> inherited Display (M);
Which gives no idea as to what is really going on - must look elsewhere
to see what is inherited. Is it direct ancestor or remote?
> in that the Ada example requires revisiting many more procedures
> if the type hierarchy is changed (unlikely for the particular
> example given, but more likely in other situations).
Thereby preventing or at least reducing unexpected spurious behavior that
would have been very expensive to track down...
/Jon
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