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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,73036d0217be91e2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Inheritance versus Generics Date: 1997/04/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 237670861 References: <33601924.774@flash.net> <3360CA7A.2272@elca-matrix.ch> Organization: Estormza Software Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3360CA7A.2272@elca-matrix.ch>, Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch wrote: >You can simulate generics with inheritance (the technique is described >in Meyer's "Object Oriented Software Construction" (very good book >BTW))... A very good book that every programmer should read. The 2nd edition has just come out, with some egregious cricisms of Ada. And I was naive enough to hope that once type extension and dynamic dispatching were added, Bertrand would like Ada. Comments, anyone? Matt P.S. He actually has a link to your dissertation in his book, Mats. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271