From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Mutually dependent private types
Date: 1998/05/29
Date: 1998-05-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980529083534.1132A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 356E09A1.B493FE89@ac3i.dseg.ti.com
On Thu, 28 May 1998, John Volan wrote:
> So basically what you're saying is, you think it's
> "good programming" to use inheritance as a way of simulating a forward
> type declaration, even if inheritance collision forces you to break the
> pattern and put a forward type declaration in an unexpected place.
> Well, that's your opinion, but I have to disagree with it.
Lets explore the idea a little more though. If there were some better
(read: more direct) support for multiple inheritance in Ada, the
inheritance collision argument is weakened, and the workaround can become
the blessed solution. Since an extension is being proposed anyways,
perhaps the single inheritance restriction should be rethought.
-- Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-29 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-21 0:00 Mutually dependent private types adam
1998-05-21 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-22 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-26 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-28 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-29 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-05-29 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-05-29 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1998-05-30 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-06-01 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-06-02 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-06-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-05-26 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-05-29 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-05-29 0:00 ` John Volan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-05-22 0:00 adam
1998-05-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-05-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-22 0:00 ` John Volan
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