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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,104df2b9b7a2f689 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!freenix!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interfaces Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 00:44:09 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <8764xj9wzf.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <877jhz0y52.fsf@deneb.enyo.de><87sm0mcjbx.fsf@deneb.enyo.de><1rfnp5x3lxi3n$.mvahuo5ag68a$.dlg@40tude.net><87u0l26rww.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87zmutsenr.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1116373583 53586 212.85.156.195 (17 May 2005 23:46:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 23:46:23 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dcc.fc.up.pt X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11075 Date: 2005-05-18T00:44:09+01:00 On 18 May 2005, at 00:21, Randy Brukardt wrote: > ... I just wasn't going to win the fight to keep interface types out of > Ada 2006. I know what you mean. I was one of the very few voicing against them, specially pointing to J.-P. Rosen's outstanding article in Ada-Europe that shows how Ada 95 already 'does' interfaces, but nobody seemed to listen, so I shut up after a cry or two. /* Interface types for Ada 2006 must be one of the most spectacular wastes of energy in the history of language standardisation. Javasing Ada, eek! But this is surely my anti-OOP daemons talking. I gave up on tagged types long ago. Give me generics anytime. */ > (Of course, in 5 years someone will stick this note in my face when I'm > advocating some sort of interface programming. I'm prepared. :-) Me too :-)