From: Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: Ada2005 temp solo child
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:41:30 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-09-13T11:41:30+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alsita$rj$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnao3g2d.26k.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no
Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:
> But if you have a parentless child, why isn't the child then the parent?
because of a couple of practical aspects:
o hierarchical grouping (similar to ada.text_io instead of text_io)
o order of development of the source code
o parent becoming superfluous in higher versions
o the concept of far reaching independence of a child is charming, anyway.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-13 8:59 Ada2005 temp solo child (was: Re: The Dreaded "Missing Subunits" Grein, Christoph
2002-09-13 10:24 ` Ada2005 temp solo child ica2ph
2002-09-13 10:40 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 11:41 ` Peter Hermann [this message]
2002-09-13 13:50 ` Dr. Michael Paus
2002-09-13 15:29 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 21:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-09-13 21:00 ` Stephen Leake
2002-09-13 16:06 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-13 16:28 ` Preben Randhol
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2002-09-16 4:19 Grein, Christoph
2002-09-16 5:03 Grein, Christoph
2002-09-17 14:06 ` Peter Hermann
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