From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-06 11:13:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!opentransit.net!wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail From: Pascal Obry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. Date: 06 Jan 2003 20:13:16 +0100 Organization: Home - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: avelizy-103-1-5-36.abo.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news-reader11.wanadoo.fr 1041880400 14232 80.13.115.36 (6 Jan 2003 19:13:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Jan 2003 19:13:20 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32634 Date: 2003-01-06T19:13:20+00:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > An abstract integer type with three non-abstract descendants is even more > simple model. My point is that almost everything you do with generics could > be done with ADT. I'm not sure what you have in mind, but ADT and generics are orthogonal notion. In fact a lot of generic components are designed as ADT. The fact that 'A' stand for abstract has nothing to do the "abstract" Ada keywords or OO feature. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595