Re: Limited_Controlled, orthogonality and related issues

[Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>]

Robert A Duff wrote:

> Is this really a big problem that needs
> fixing?

It depends on the viewpoint.
You might argue that adding a limited controlled property to the type 
should have been foreseen from the very beginning, not as an 
afterthought, and the experienced Ada developer should know that such 
types are tagged so that all operations can be written appropriately 
(ie. to use class-wide parameters) from the outset. But I would say that 
this is just "gotcha" - something that can scare off newcomers.

It's hard to "fix" (whatever that means) - destructors should have been 
part of the object model from the very beginning.


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