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: 103376,18f7f6e041b3e0bf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-05 04:05:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:15:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1028219309.986605@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1028303374.179416@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1028545510 38524584 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27691 Date: 2002-08-05T13:15:52+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:49:34 -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote: >Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote: >> So in C++ int will never be a class, worse to C++. > >It's never going be a class in Ada either. It was rather about an imaginary successor of Ada, which should not be Ada++ in the sense of C++ = "C with classes". At some point one will have to drive the line. > > I doubt that it is worth effors to keep objects Ada > > and C++ compatible. > >I think that the GNAT creators would disagree with you. >As far as I know, they make corresponding Ada and C++ >objects layout compatible. Perhaps one of them will >explain why. Maybe because they get it more or less free. (:-)) --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de