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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: fac41,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract) Date: 1997/09/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 270596495 References: <340C85CE.6F42@link.com> Organization: Estormza Software Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-09-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) wrote: >>The Eiffel camp seems to think that dependency order is a limitation, but >>it was a deliberate decision by Ada's designers. As an Ada programmer, I >>haven't found it to be a limitation at all; in fact, I find it quite >>helpful, exactly as the designers imagined it would be. > >Perhaps it is helpful, but it is also a limitation. Perhaps a >helpful limitation, but a limitation nonetheless. This is not unlike saying that "strong typing" is a helpful limitation, but a limitation nonetheless. Forward declarations just confuse me, but your mileage may vary. >>To get random signatures put text files into a folder called �Random >>Signatures� into your Preferences folder. Oops! I recently installed Navigator 4.03, and it installed some extra stuff (grrrrr...) that overrode the behavior of what was already working. I guess they call that a "feature," eh? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271