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From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++
Date: 1999/12/15
Date: 1999-12-15T12:45:15+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bt7sv0cv.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uwvqhbbxy.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov

Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

| I just wasted a couple of hours on a closely related problem, which I
| propose we call "the snark effect" (see thread "hunting snarks"). I
| changed the profile of the base type operation (one parameter changed
| from "in out" to "access" to avoid an accesibility problem). But I
| forgot to change one of the operations in one of the (many) derived
| types. In similar situations, Ada catches such errors (ie, change spec
| but forget to change body). I'd like Ada to catch this as well.

Yes. :-) 

But how should the Ada compiler know that you meant to write:

procedure Eat

and not

procedure Eats

I may have misunderstood the original request, but I don't see how the
Ada compiler could know if you wanted to write Eat or not here.

-- 
Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/]     
         "Det eneste trygge stedet i verden er inne i en fortelling." 
                                                      -- Athol Fugard




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-12-15  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-26  0:00 Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ Robert
1999-11-26  0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-26  0:00   ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-26  0:00 ` Harald Schmidt
1999-11-26  0:00   ` Andreas Winckler
1999-11-26  0:00     ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-04  0:00   ` Richard D Riehle
     [not found]     ` <01bf3e32$0b9dc880$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-12-10  0:00       ` Chris Powell
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Simon Wright
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-15  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Ray Blaak
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-12  0:00                 ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
1999-12-15  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-20  0:00               ` Stefan Skoglund
1999-12-16  0:00             ` Pascal Obry
1999-12-16  0:00               ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-16  0:00               ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-16  0:00               ` Rakesh Malhotra
1999-12-21  0:00                 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-21  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-21  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Stephen Leake
1999-12-14  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-15  0:00                   ` Stephen Leake
1999-12-15  0:00                 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-15  0:00           ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
1999-12-15  0:00             ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
1999-12-21  0:00             ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-21  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-22  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-13  0:00         ` DuckE
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-14  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Chris Powell
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-23  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-12-27  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Stephen Leake
1999-12-23  0:00               ` Chris Powell
1999-11-26  0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-11-27  0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-12-14  0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-12-15  0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-15  0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
1999-12-16  0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-16  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-17  0:00     ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-18  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-12-20  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-22  0:00 Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ ( Ehud Lamm
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