Re: Object-Oriented style question

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:45:00 +0100, Georg Bauhaus  
<rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> a écrit:

> First question: Will it be preferable if those introducing O-O
> in Ada use a (virtual) rubber eraser and clean up introductions
> by removing unneeded (and in some cases dangerous) "access" from
> declarations of O-O primitive operations?

If you talk about student, there will soon learn about unneeded access,  
and will want to go with it if their background suggest it.

> Second question: Technically, will it be advisable to work on
> "access-free" bindings to O-O libraries because the Ada language
> makes O-O types be by-reference as is?  Or on facilitating these
> with the help of a compiler matching by-reference  mechanics of
> foreign languages?

If by “compiler” you mean “Ada compiler” (or else what?), this would be an  
error I believe. Ada's interface to C was first defined to use access type  
where C did not. This was confusing and had to be fixed.

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