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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,616d9205126cfe82 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Invocation of Shadowed Implementations in Ada 95 Date: 1996/09/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178725079 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <1996Sep4.163433.1@eisner> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com