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-Thread: 103376,73f81e5f5d6ee80f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng1.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: MI is sloppy (was: Construction initialization problem) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:09:26 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Dec 2008 11:09:26 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: a286767e.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=HDJHdDeV3bPmG86`U=_nC_ic==]BZ:af^4Fo<]lROoRQ^YC2XCjHcbYCfe5QI_]=OYDNcfSJ;bb[UIRnRBaCd_PcKV;e0j]W] X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2900 Date: 2008-12-06T11:09:26+01:00 List-Id: On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:42:40 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote: > A waste of effort. I don't believe in multiple inheritance (in any form); it > seems to me to be an excuse for sloppy design. It is like saying that a record with two components is a sloppy design. Either inheritance is a rubbish concept or else it is multiple. My pet example of MI is: type In_File is ...; procedure Get (File : in out Input_File; Item : out Data); type Out_File is ...; procedure Put (File : in out Output_File; Item : Data); type Inout_File is .. ? Is it sloppy? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de