From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !!
Date: 1999/10/26
Date: 1999-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccn1t6w7ay.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7v2upa$28s$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> No, the procedure problem is *FAR* more fundamental. The
> requirement that you declare procedures before they are used is
> not just syntactic heaviness, it is just plain wrong when you
> are using procedures as refinements.
Shrug. I guess I've gotten use to reading the code backwards when
that's appropriate. ;-)
I do agree the COBOL way is kind of nice in this area.
Another problem with procedures (compared to blocks) is that a procedure
*has* to have a name, which is not always what you want.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-15 0:00 Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !! Chango Cho
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Paul Duquennoy
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Stephane Barbey
1999-10-15 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-10-15 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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