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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Something like "->" in Ada?
Date: 1996/04/03
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Date: 1996-04-03T00:00:00+00:00
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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.