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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-14 17:51:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.251.151.101!opentransit.net!wanadoo.fr!freenix!deine.net!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic References: <3D095F70.8090001@telepath.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.2 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 00:51:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.91.90 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1024102295 144.132.91.90 (Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:51:35 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:51:35 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26000 Date: 2002-06-15T00:51:35+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > Ah, so the issue is programming effort. I thought it was performance. The original poster was asking about both. I would imagine that transforming objects into strings could result in some performance penatly as well as requiring more programming effort. To convert arbitrary information to a string is fairly straight forward (even allowing for flattening), but going the other way isn't necessarily, esp. as you have to determine exactly what type of object the string represents. You could utilise the streams feature to convert it to/from in a standardised way, but to me that seems a lot of work compared to the Java equivalent. Dale