From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Something like "->" in Ada?
Date: 1996/04/03
Date: 1996-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.828580219@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31620B5E.FCD@mcs.com
Mike said
"But, as you say, it's probably a matter of acclimation."
Probably. One thing you can say is that the Ada approach is more general.
FOr instance if you declare an operation "+" in an abstract algebra, and
then you derive a particular concrete algebra with a specific concrete
"+" operator, this fits into the Ada scheme cleanly and easily, but in
a "send mssage to this object" paradigm, it is awkward and forced, if
cleanly possible at all.
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1996-04-01 0:00 Something like "->" in Ada? Chris O'Regan
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-04-04 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-04 0:00 ` Mike Young
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