Re: Need advice: Enumerate or not

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On 15 May 2002 19:37:05 -0700, Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> The real rule in Ada is use the appropriate design to make the code as easy
> as possible to read *and* maintain. Sometimes dynamic dispatching meets this
> criterion, sometimes it fails. 
> 
> Those who insist on using dispatching and extended types for everything doom
> themselves to write rubbish code that is hard to read and hard to maintain in
> some situations.
> 
> Those who absolutely refuse to use dispatching and type extension ever doom
> themselves to the same fate.

OK I see. I see now that it makes sense to use dispatching in one place
and enumerated types in another in the program I'm making.

Thanks!

Preben
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