From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: A bad counterintuitive behaviour of Ada about OO
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:53:25 -0700
Date: 2014-08-08T15:53:25-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ls3kd6$h2m$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ls3jfv$fqf$1@loke.gir.dk>
On 08/08/2014 03:37 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> But how defines "proper use"? I'd argue it's the language designers -- it's
> impossible for a real language to meet everyone's idea of "proper use". (To
> paraphrase Abe Lincoln, in language design you can please some of the people
> all of the time, and please all of the people some of the time, but you
> can't please all of the people all of the time.) I very much doubt that it
> is possible for any language to meet your idea of "proper use of OO", and
> Dmitry's, and mine, and ..., while still meeting the goals of efficiency and
> correctness that Ada has.
Especially since proper use of type extension is none at all :)
--
Jeff Carter
"We call your door-opening request a silly thing."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2014-08-05 20:09 A bad counterintuitive behaviour of Ada about OO Victor Porton
2014-08-05 20:58 ` Simon Wright
2014-08-05 21:06 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-05 21:51 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-08-05 22:13 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-05 22:35 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-05 23:25 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-08-05 20:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-05 21:07 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-05 22:39 ` Shark8
2014-08-05 21:11 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-06 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-07 7:41 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-07 8:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 7:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-08 8:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 13:06 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-08 13:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 22:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-09 16:11 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-09 16:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-10 20:55 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-11 7:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-11 7:58 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-11 8:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-12 7:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-11 11:35 ` G.B.
2014-08-08 22:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-08 8:34 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 12:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-08 22:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-08 22:53 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-08-07 8:58 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-07 9:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-07 11:17 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-07 12:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-07 13:34 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-07 16:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-07 18:14 ` Robert A Duff
2014-08-07 19:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-07 20:53 ` Robert A Duff
2014-08-08 7:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 8:18 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 7:45 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-08 8:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 8:55 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-08 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 10:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-08 10:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 10:56 ` Victor Porton
2014-08-08 12:00 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-08 13:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 13:53 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-08 20:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-07 20:29 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 7:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-08 8:12 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 11:10 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 11:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 19:34 ` Shark8
2014-08-08 20:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-07 15:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-08-08 7:48 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-08 8:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-08 13:25 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-08-08 13:34 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-08 13:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 14:21 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-08-08 20:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-08-08 22:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-08 22:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-06 4:50 ` Per Sandberg
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