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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++
Date: 1999/12/15
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kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> If conversions get that numerous, it is a sign of bad design.

I don't agree.  If you have:

    type A1 is access all T1'Class;
    type A2 is access all T2'Class;

where "T2 is new T1 with ...", then it is perfectly natural to want to
convert from A2 to A1.  It is not a sign of bad design at all.  But Ada
requires an explicit type conversion in this case, which is a flaw in
Ada.

This one flaw is not enough to make me switch to C++, though.

> One can code Fortran in any language.  Coding C in Ada is much
> worse than coding C in C.

- Bob