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Subject: Re: Object-Oriented style question
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:31 +0100
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Le Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:45:00 +0100, Georg Bauhaus  =

<rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> a =C3=A9crit:

> 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 =E2=80=9Ccompiler=E2=80=9D you mean =E2=80=9CAda compiler=E2=80=9D=
 (or else what?), this would be an  =

error I believe. Ada's interface to C was first defined to use access ty=
pe  =

where C did not. This was confusing and had to be fixed.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity