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,cb4b02eafef9cefb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Difference between ADA and c++ Date: 1997/08/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 268659617 Distribution: world References: <33FDD17A.320B@virgin.net> <01bcafdf$50784b80$7774d8cc@fatman> <5u0hj7$enj$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5u0hj7$enj$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: > Re (2): it is my understanding that this is one of the main reasons why > template handling appeared late, buggy, slow, and disc-hungry in C++ > compilers. It also raises hosts of issues concerning where things get > defined. I have tried and tried to understand what the C++ draft standard > says about this, and it has me baffled. If it has you baffled, then certainly the rest of us are without hope, :-) [good stuff about C++ template machinery and Ada generics snipped] /Jon -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari