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Subject: Re: Event mechanisms for GUI's
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Lucretia wrote:
> 
> This also seems a bit more procedural, rather than using the more
> natural OO way. Remember, in Ada you use what applies and is more
> natural, a GUI is inherently OO.

OO is a design attribute. It has nothing to do with the language 
mechanisms used to implement the design. The implementation technique 
usually called OOP is actually programming by extension.

While extending windows might make sense, I see no use to extending 
events or event queues.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I fart in your general direction."
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