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Subject: Re: Experimenting with the OOP features in Ada
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:07:28 +0100
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On 03/01/2017 15:31, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2017-01-03 14:57, Laurent wrote:

>> Item.Name.Set (Name=>"Something") looks better than
>>
>> Item.Name := My_Strings.Handle.Create (Value => Name);
>
> Some people like using unary "+" for this. E.g.
>
>    function "+" (Value : String) return My_Safe_String
>       renames My_Strings.Handle.Create;
>
> Then you can do:
>
>    Item.Name := +"Something";

Using an operator seems always a good idea when the language
does not otherwise support a ubiquitous notion such as a handle.

Otherwise, both the domain data types and data handling
types are indistinguishable, language-wise, and the reader
is left in daze: is this program text about handles or is
it about data?