From: Martin Lorentzon <emwson@emw.ericsson.se>
Subject: Re: Inheritance versus Generics
Date: 1997/04/28
Date: 1997-04-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vmenbvwiv3.fsf@emw.ericsson.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33601924.774@flash.net
Craig Smith <cdsmith0@flash.net> writes:
> Generics were a very power feature of Ada-83. With the OO features
> introduced into Ada-95 (in particuliar, the tagged record and ability to
> inherit), are Generics obsolute? I would guess since several features
> were added to generics (like generic formal package parameters), the
> answer is no. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Mastering both features can prove very powerful. Parametrization can
be used to reduce the length/complexity of the inheritance lattice of
your system.
I've found that parametrization is often used to end an inheritance
lattice.
/Martin Lorentzson
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1997-04-24 0:00 Inheritance versus Generics Craig Smith
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-29 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-05-02 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-02 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-29 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-05-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-26 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Lionel Draghi
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-04-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-28 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-29 0:00 ` bertrand
1997-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-28 0:00 ` Martin Lorentzon [this message]
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