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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
Date: 06 Jan 2003 20:13:16 +0100
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"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.
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