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From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak@yahoo.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:19:14 -0300
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Colin Paul Gloster escreveu:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Simon J. Wright wrote:
> 
> |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
> |"[..]                                                               |
> |                                                                    |
> |And what will happen to this distinction with Point (2.0, 2.0);?    |
> |                                                                    |
> |You could use named parameter association, but *much* better to use |
> |proper types --                                                     |
> |                                                                    |
> |type Cartesian_Coordinate is record                                 |
> |   X : Metres;                                                      |
> |   Y : Metres;                                                      |
> |end record;                                                         |
> |                                                                    |
> |which makes it easy to (for instance) create appropriate functions  |
> |"+", "-", "*", "/"."                                                |
> |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
> 
> Oh dear, Mr. Wright is nearly as bad as Mr. Rabak. Dr. Meyer gave an
> example of overloading which Eiffel can perform 

Since you citing me (incorrectly) and write this:

> which he claimed that
> Ada can not manage. 

Writing a wrong assertion about a book it seems you only read a summary 
made before a term exam, I suggest you get the text you implied you were 
mentioning, specially the four paragraph on page 94 (OOSC 2nd ed.) and 
pay attention to was is *actually* written there.

> The pseudo-Ada example by Dr. Meyer did not have a
> record, and a less minor upgrade than adding a record was sufficient
> to show that Dr. Meyer did not know what he was writing about.

Yes it did have a record because this perversion of creating a lot of 
nicknames for solving a problem B. Meyer proposed a different approach.

If mentioning Ada hurts so much your feelings, rest assured the same 
could be said about C++ :-)

Please keep the discussion on the technical aspects and don't make 
personal attacks: they do not add anything to enlightenment for anybody.