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,aae01e0853bff01c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-16 20:34:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: mheaney@MHEANEYX200 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Should MI be supported (was: Can MI be supported?) References: <3F67D0FA.9020506@attbi.com> From: Matthew Heaney Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 03:25:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.110.133.134 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1063769120 65.110.133.134 (Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:25:20 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:25:20 EDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42596 Date: 2003-09-17T03:25:20+00:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" writes: > I guess we just have to agree to disagree on this. I personally find > the mixin idiom to be more natural than the view conversion > approach. But Ada allows both, and in fact several other ways to code > the same example, and we are talking about adding one more. Well, there you go. I much prefer access discriminants (I've sort of abandoned the generic mixin approach -- too clunky for my taste), but to each his own, as they say!