Re: friend classes in ada95 (long)

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

GNATCOM already does that very well and its tools build all the code for you
from start finish, you just have to fill in the bodies for the COM objects.
As for using the COM objects you run BindCOM or use the dynamic interface,
and wiz bang you are on your way.

What I am looking to do is introduce interface MI in to Ada syntax. And if I
am already going to implement it, I might as well do it in a way that would
make it easier to write a COM object in raw Ada. I would still never suggest
any one try and write COM objects with out a framework like GNATCOM, much as
most people would never write COM objects in C++ with out ATL or MFC.

Of course, I can already do interface MI in Ada already, so this is really
just about syntax. I am not happy that Ada comes out looking bad in OO
circles, since most people can not bridge the gap from "class  X" to "type X
is tagged", even though there is none.

David Botton

<tmoran@bix.com> wrote in message
news:TSSK4.73$vE6.38666@news.pacbell.net...
> > -- Interface IUnknown
> > ...
>
> How about making a hidden MSWindows COM object to serve as the nucleus
> of a higher level Ada object instead of adding syntax to tell the
> Ada compiler to create today's low level MS Windows binary to
> access COM objects.