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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: ada paper critic
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:25:31 +0200
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On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:35:27 +1000, Dale Stanbrough
<dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:

>Just thinking about it, don't Ada's "non constructor" construcor 
>functions require you to build  items on the heap, then copy them 
>into the variable, rather than bulding them inplace?

I believe, in worst case, they will be copied from the stack.

There are IMO more serious problems with OO in Ada, but most of them
can be addressed to other languages as well. Others, like non-OO task
and protected object types, can be excused by the fact that other
languages have no such types at all.

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