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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a602a7f65bebaea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-18 06:56:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <20021017-143635-828420@foorum.com> <3DAF0ECE.7080204@acm.org> Subject: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:56:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.157.178.79 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1034949386 141.157.178.79 (Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:56:26 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:56:26 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29902 Date: 2002-10-18T13:56:26+00:00 List-Id: "Georg Bauhaus" wrote in message news:aon6s3$l01$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de... > Jeffrey Carter wrote: > : There are no "methods", abstract or otherwise, in Ada. Ada has > : subprograms and entries; subprograms are either procedures or functions. > : Nary a method in sight. > > Operations? Operations, either in C++ or in Ada, are simply functions / methods with unconventional names and calling syntax.