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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: A bad counterintuitive behaviour of Ada about OO
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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
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