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: 103376,99f33f51845a7793 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-02 18:52:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttln1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3be27344$0$227$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> <3BE2D5C3.6E81D65B@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: 'withing' problem X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 02:52:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.45.203 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttln1.wa.home.com 1004755978 24.248.45.203 (Fri, 02 Nov 2001 18:52:58 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 18:52:58 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15715 Date: 2001-11-03T02:52:58+00:00 List-Id: I believe you'll find in the original post that the intent is not to "move code" but rather to support another language with a program generation tool. SteveD "Preben Randhol" wrote in message news:slrn9u5sln.v0j.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no... > On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:19:17 GMT, Ed Falis wrote: > > I believe the original poster said he was moving (automatically?) code > > from a language such as Java to Ada, where the lack of spec and > > implementation separation leads naturally to mutually dependent > > classes. In such languages, this is not necessarily bad design. > > No, but either moving code automatically or not, one ought to redesign > in Ada in order not to get into this problem with withing. I find it an > odd approache to change the language you are moving code *to* in order > to fit features in the language one is moving the *code* from! The code > should change not the language. > > Preben Randhol > -- > Please, stop bombing civilians in Afghanistan. One cannot write off > killing innocent children and other civilians as "collateral damage". > A civilian is a civilian whether he or she is American or from another > country in the world. http://web.amnesty.org/11september.htm