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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95 (long)
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Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> It seems that I ruffled your feathers by using that word in the context of 
> your favorite language. Sorry. I actually liked the signature extension of 
> C++. I'd love to see such a feature grafted onto Ada.

Sorry about that. My antennae sometimes get a little hyperextended in
c.l.a. But as to signatures, I don't much care for them. It seems to
me that they are there to take advantage of accidents in function
naming, whereas interfaces are part of a design.