Re: A question for my personal knowledge.

[Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>]

Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>  The question is when to create your own instead of accepting the
>  default created by the compiler.  The answer to this question is
>  often non-trivial.
...
>  In Ada, a creation of an object is a simple declaration.
...
>  I wonder if the closing words of your reply, "I imagine," suggest
>  that further study of Ada would illuminate some of the points better
>  than I could do in this brief space.  
...
>  As to comparing the languages, such comparisons are nearly always
>  fruitless.

But you started it! You said that to the uninformed, C++ looks simpler
than Ada, but that with deeper understanding, the opposite becomes
apparent. I invited you to show me some code which demonstrates this.

I don't know Ada, and I don't feel like learning it right now, but I
think I could follow an example you post. So show me an object which
requires a constructor and user-defined assignment operator in C++,
but only a simple declaration and no such operator in Ada. Or if I
misunderstood, just show me *something* where Ada's object model lets
you do away with things that C++ requires.