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,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,63fa88e2f1a3ebea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Universal type in Ada Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:36:07 +0200 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <6x57sZABaxNz@eisner.encompasserve.org> <1118927593.623683.105940@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1118932587 64137 212.85.156.195 (16 Jun 2005 14:36:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:36:27 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1118927593.623683.105940@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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:11422 Date: 2005-06-16T16:36:07+02:00 Organization: PVV zw@cs.man.ac.uk wrote on 16/06/2005 (13:17) : > Yes, I am trying to transfer a program in Java to Ada. Because as far > as I know there is no reflection mechanisms in Ada, so what I do is to > try to create a new API for reflection in Ada that would do someting > similar to java.lang.reflect If you are transfering, why not improve the program at the same time by using Ada's powers? Doesn't make sense to me to transfer the program unless there is a benifit from it. But I don't know the program, so there may be other reasons that one need to cheat the type system. Preben