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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e8cf506f89b5d0a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-21 19:18:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Looping over a tagged record? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 02:18:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.45.203 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 993176297 24.248.45.203 (Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:18:17 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:18:17 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9019 Date: 2001-06-22T02:18:17+00:00 List-Id: "Charles Hixson" wrote in message [snip] > > This part would be relatively straight-forward in C, but so far > I haven't figured out how to do it in Ada. So far it's looking > like everything is going to need to be descendant from some > particular tagged type (I'll probably call it persistant), which > will define a few basic methods (read, write, find, etc.) But > the answer that I can currently figure out how to do is to > implement everything but the inheritance in C. I'm finding this > quite distasteful, but I don't know what alternatives are > better. And figuring out how I can do this in a way that > doesn't make me rewrite everything whenever a new class is > described ... "...inheritance in C" Say what? Perhaps you're thinking of C++ or Objective C. The last I know C didn't have inheritance. SteveD