comp.lang.ada
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question
Date: 02 Aug 2002 13:48:13 -0400
Date: 2002-08-02T17:56:42+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1y9h884i.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1028303374.179416@master.nyc.kbcfp.com

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote:
> > So in C++ int will never be a class, worse to C++.
> 
> It's never going be a class in Ada either.
> 
>  > I doubt that it is worth effors to keep objects Ada
>  > and C++ compatible.
> 
> I think that the GNAT creators would disagree with you.
> As far as I know, they make corresponding Ada and C++
> objects layout compatible. Perhaps one of them will
> explain why.

It allows you to derive a new Ada type from a C++ class, and vice
versa. Then a dispatching call from a C++ routine can call an Ada
body, and vice versa.

It allows _full_ mixed language programming with Ada and C++. This is
a _very_ good feature. The alternative requires a C interface between
C++ and Ada, which is simply not as good.

-- 
-- Stephe



  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-02 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-24  5:33 Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Grein, Christoph
2002-07-24 22:55 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-25 15:46   ` Ben Brosgol
2002-07-29 20:38     ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-31 22:52       ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-07-31 20:18         ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-02  1:15           ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-01 16:30             ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-02 23:42               ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-02 15:49                 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-02 17:48                   ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2002-08-10  3:03                     ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-05 11:15                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-08-12 12:44                   ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-13  2:00                     ` Information Systems Annex was " Robert C. Leif
2002-08-13  8:17                       ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-13 23:53                         ` Information Systems Annex Robert C. Leif
2002-08-13 17:37                       ` Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Keith Thompson
2002-08-13 23:53                         ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-14  8:52                           ` Keith Thompson
2002-08-14 21:53                             ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-15  9:31                               ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-15 21:54                                 ` Decimal Floating point was " Robert C. Leif
2002-08-16  6:26                                   ` Keith Thompson
2002-08-16 16:26                                     ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-16 18:17                                       ` Keith Thompson
2002-08-16 15:26                                   ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 15:29                                   ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-15  9:26                           ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-15 16:17                             ` Darren New
2002-08-15 17:25                               ` David C. Hoos
2002-08-15 17:31                                 ` Darren New
2002-08-15 19:59                                 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-08-15 17:39                               ` tmoran
2002-08-15 19:18                               ` Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-15 18:41                                 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-16 15:49                                 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17  6:31                                   ` Simon Wright
2002-08-17 14:17                                     ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-15 21:54                             ` Decimal Floating types was RE: Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Robert C. Leif
2002-08-16 15:21                               ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 16:15                                 ` Decimal Floating types Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 10:52                                   ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 14:30                                     ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-20  0:26                                       ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-20  2:35                                         ` SteveD
2002-08-22 18:15                                         ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-23  3:23                                           ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 15:47                             ` Information Systems Annex (usefulness of Decimal Floats) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 10:54                               ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 14:06                                 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 10:56                               ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 14:12                                 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 19:04                                 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-20  0:25                                   ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 15:38                           ` Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Robert Dewar
2002-08-13 22:50           ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-14  0:02             ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-25  0:40 ` Robert Dewar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-22 23:13 Adam Beneschan
2002-07-23 15:42 ` Stephen Leake
2002-07-24 15:37   ` Stephen Leake
replies disabled

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox