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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-06 06:13:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p62.246.105.17.tisdip.tiscali.DE!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 15:13:46 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <3E147D79.2070703@cogeco.ca> <4519e058.0301031434.51a0c880@posting.google.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: p62.246.105.17.tisdip.tiscali.de (62.246.105.17) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1041862398 14805993 62.246.105.17 (16 [77047]) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32611 Date: 2003-01-06T15:13:46+01:00 List-Id: James S. Rogers wrote: > Are you also against the use of abstract tagged types? By no means. It would mean that I am against generic programming. I am against overusing generics in generic programming. In my view tagged types are a real alternative to generics. We have T'Class which denotes a set of types as "digits <>" or "private" does. But they need a long way to evolve before they will supersede generics in things like STL. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de