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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a602a7f65bebaea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-21 08:45:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!cyclone1.gnilink.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95 References: <20021017-143635-828420@foorum.com> <3DAF0ECE.7080204@acm.org> <3DB0785A.1040304@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:49:52 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1035211793 151.168.133.155 (Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:49:53 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:49:53 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29993 Date: 2002-10-21T09:49:52-05:00 List-Id: > There are no "methods", either in abstract terminology or actual > programming languages. AFAIKS, "method" is a new name for an old concept > made up to muddy the waters by people who were trying to present old > concepts as something new that they'd invented. I don't know whether ("made up to muddy the waters") is true or not. It does seem that way, doesn't it. But I don't know their motives, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. As long as they seem to be engaged in honest dicussion and not merely trying to start a fight..... -- Merrily we Troll Along... http://freepages.humor.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau