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From: Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com
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Subject: RE: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate
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| -----Message d'origine-----
| De: john@nospam.demon.co.uk [mailto:john@nospam.demon.co.uk]
...
| You could have something like:
| 
| tagged package X is
|    a : integer;
|    b : float;
| 
|    procedure method;
| end X;
| 
| So 'a' and 'b' would be object attributes and 'method' would be an
| object method. This sort of package would essentially define a single
| tagged type without all of the record definition and controlling
| parameters etc.
| 
| Further you could use:
| 
| tagged package Y is new X with
|    c : some_enumerated_type;
| end Y;
| etc..
| 
I find this pretty elegant, although using the "package" keyword leads to
the class/module confusion that Ada currently avoid.
And removing "package" brings us not so far from Steve proposal, isn't it?

-- 
Lionel Draghi.