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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: class wide iterable (and indexable)
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Date: 2019-01-05T21:18:11+01:00
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On 2019-01-05 18:05, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> A major problem with programming by extension is that it requires 
> violating the S/W-engineering principle of locality.

A principle that would require "+" operations (ARM 4.5.3) (Integer, 
Real, Complex etc) all implemented by the same body? Trilling, but 
evidently absurd.

> S/W engineers don't willingly violate those principles,

Some ignore separation of interface and implementation as "locality" 
would require, but majority, at least of Ada practitioners, I hope do not.

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