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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
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>> Why repeating this flawed syntax for classes? It is again about
>> fundamentals, privacy is not a type property. It is of a module.
>
> Well, as far as I can see protected types, tasks and (in this
> not-to-be-taken-seriously proposal) classes are modules, in a way.

Why use "sort-of modules" when Ada already has strong, well-designed 
modules? That's the main argument given by the Ada 9x team, and I for one 
have a hard time arguing that.

Languages with the "class = module" property never had any modules in the 
first place. They confused the benefits of modules with the (smaller) 
benefits of O-O. And so on. (If all you have is a hammer, everything looks 
like a nail...)

                                                  Randy.