From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: newbie - OOP in Ada Set and Get Methods
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:17:39 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2004-12-28T21:17:39+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cqsihj$9uu$1@titan.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1104255406.015130.138150@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>
R wrote:
> because all OOP languages uses references to pass the objects as
> parameters...
Oh dear, no...
That's a might big assumption that 'all OOP languages' use references to
pass objects - that's how it's implemented but there is (usually) no
need in Ada for the programmer to get their hands dirty with such low
level details!
Tagged types are guaranteed to be passed by reference (the cost of the
tag alone makes this the obvious mechanism) and for other types the RM
either dictates how it is done or lets the compiler select what's best. :-)
Cheers
-- Martin
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-28 12:41 newbie - OOP in Ada Set and Get Methods R
2004-12-28 13:36 ` Jeff C r e e.m
2004-12-28 16:26 ` R
2004-12-28 17:01 ` Jeff C r e e.m
2004-12-28 17:30 ` R
2004-12-28 17:20 ` Martin Dowie
2004-12-28 17:36 ` R
2004-12-28 19:47 ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-12-28 19:48 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-12-28 19:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-28 21:17 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2004-12-29 10:06 ` R
2004-12-29 12:33 ` Martin Dowie
2004-12-29 17:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-29 19:12 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-30 12:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-29 19:11 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-28 13:39 ` Martin Krischik
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