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From: "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: tagged types extensions - language design question
Date: 2000/01/28
Date: 2000-01-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s91denm47q5148@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ER_j4.621$Sa2.16708@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net


Matthew Heaney wrote in message ...
>In article <s90mu0hg7q538@corp.supernews.com> , "Vladimir Olensky"
><vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Why don't you just declare these types in separate packages?


This is  :
1.  an additional step
2.  an additional package
3.  an additional level of inheritance.

That's why I was asking why it is not allowed to do this in one step as in
other OOP languages. Probably there exist some reasons for that.

Though GNAT provides efficient dispatching mechanism it is better to
minimize inheritance depth for derived types when possible.
Also creating additional  packages  just to  provide visible fields for
private
tagged type  is not handy.

Actually I was using additional packages but to my point of view this is not
very convenient.

Regards,
Vladimir Olensky






  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-01-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-27  0:00 tagged types extensions - language design question Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-27  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-27  0:00   ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-28  0:00   ` Vladimir Olensky [this message]
2000-01-28  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-28  0:00       ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-28  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
2000-02-01  0:00           ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-29  0:00       ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-29  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-29  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-31  0:00           ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-31  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-31  0:00               ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-27  0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-01-28  0:00   ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-28  0:00     ` Andy
2000-01-28  0:00       ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-29  0:00         ` Andy
2000-01-31  0:00           ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-01-27  0:00 ` Fraser
2000-01-28  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-31  0:00   ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-01  0:00   ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
2000-02-01  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-03  0:00         ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) root
2000-02-03  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-04  0:00             ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-04  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-05  0:00                 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-05  0:00                 ` blaak
2000-02-05  0:00                   ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-09  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-09  0:00                     ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-10  0:00                       ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-10  0:00                 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-10  0:00                   ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-11  0:00                     ` scripting/extension language for Ada (we have an opportunity here) Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11  0:00                       ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-02-12  0:00                         ` blaak
2000-02-12  0:00                         ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-12  0:00                         ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-02-12  0:00                           ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-14  0:00                             ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-15  0:00                               ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-16  0:00                                 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-16  0:00                                   ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-16  0:00                                     ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17  0:00                                       ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-12  0:00                           ` root
2000-02-12  0:00                         ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-13  0:00                           ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-02-16  0:00                             ` scripting/extension ... [off topic] Nick Roberts
2000-02-16  0:00                               ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-11  0:00                     ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) David Starner
2000-02-12  0:00                       ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-12  0:00                       ` blaak
2000-02-15  0:00                         ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-14  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-04  0:00               ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-02-04  0:00                 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-05  0:00                   ` Lionel Draghi
2000-02-05  0:00                     ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-06  0:00                       ` Lionel Draghi
2000-02-06  0:00                       ` Bryce Bardin
2000-02-08  0:00                         ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-05  0:00                 ` Lionel Draghi
2000-02-05  0:00                 ` Ray Blaak
2000-02-05  0:00             ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged typesextensions) Lionel Draghi
2000-02-05  0:00           ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) Ehud Lamm
2000-02-06  0:00             ` Lionel Draghi
2000-02-06  0:00               ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-06  0:00               ` scripting/extension language for Ada Terry Westley
2000-02-09  0:00               ` scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types extensions) Robert A Duff
2000-01-31  0:00 ` tagged types extensions - language design question Mark Lundquist
2000-02-01  0:00   ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-01  0:00   ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-01  0:00   ` Simon Wright
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