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-Thread: 103376,8591be732d0fce98 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!panix!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OOP alternatives? Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:05:02 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <462e0cf4-1d53-4918-b30b-dd3d8df90f1b@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <487d9636$0$6543$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <6e5uq2F5g7n6U2@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1216253102 13012 192.74.137.71 (17 Jul 2008 00:05:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:05:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SNaSpPmhoGtLjoZ1J5Z5wz2An5A= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1183 Date: 2008-07-16T20:05:02-04:00 List-Id: "(see below)" writes: > IIRC, in LIS Ichbiah went for a 3-component module, with interface (spec), > representation (private) and implementation (body) files. Interesting. So he knew about the idea, and/or invented it, but neglected to put it in Ada! > I always wondered why Ada departed from that. Strange. Seems obviously superior to the Ada way of doing private parts. I'd still rather eliminate private parts altogether. - Bob