Re: tagged type as generic parameter

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Philippe Tarroux a �crit :
>> Given the OP's comment that the formal is tagged so that he will be 
>> able to build lists of the type implies that he comes from a 
>> background in such a language.
> What i wanted is not the "best" way to implement lists. I just wanted to 
> explore this way. The strong OOP orientation is due to the fact that i 
> tried this example after a discussion with one of my student arguing 
> that Ada is too complex compared to Java. I wanted to explore '� la 
> Java' solutions.
Of course, '� la Java' solutions coded in Ada will always be 
disadvantaged; the converse is also true.

When discussing language complexity, I think you should start from a 
real problem (without overspecification!), code it in each language 
following each language's philosophy, and compare the result. Everything 
else is biased.

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