Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:

> Pascal Obry wrote:
> > I'm not sure this is true. To use this object the type must be known at
> > _compile_ time. Darren said "a new type at run-time", and to this question
> > I would answer no. The distributed annexe does not help here.
> 
> Well, think of how Java does it. Your partition could define a tagged type
> called Transaction, and you could load up different partitions with derived
> types called AddTransaction, RemoveTransaction, etc as you develop them.

In Java of course, since precisely, it is possible to load dynamically new
classes.

> I don't have to change anything to add a transaction. Just put the file in
> the code directory. :-) *That* is the sort of thing people do with scripting
> languages. 

I have no problem with scripting languages, this was not my point :)

> But you could do a similar thing with the distributed annex. Recompile the
                                                               ^^^^^^^^

Ok "recompile", but this is not at runtime :) So I think we are on the same
wavelength.

Pascal.

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