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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Package's private parts and protected types
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:44:05 -0500
Date: 2010-02-08T15:44:05-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccr5ovpiei.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: C795E90F.13585C%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk

"(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> Strangely, LIS, his ancestor of Ada, did not do this but had distinct,
> separately compiled, interface, representation, and algorithm parts for the
> LIS equivalent of packages.

Interesting.  I don't know anything about LIS.

> I wonder what the rationale was for merging the first two. I suspect
> compiler efficiency worries, valid at the time, that now are obsolete.

I wonder, too.  I don't buy the "compiler efficiency" worries.
That might explain why private parts exist, but it doesn't
explain why they can't be separately compiled (i.e. stored
in separate source files).

I'd eliminate them altogether, though.

- Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-08 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-08  4:30 Package's private parts and protected types Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-08  8:30 ` Martin
2010-02-08  9:11   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-08 10:10     ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-02-08 10:46       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 14:55         ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-02-08 10:20   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-02-08 10:54     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-08 10:58       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-08 11:01       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-02-08 13:19         ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-02-08 15:17         ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-08 16:15           ` (see below)
2010-02-08 20:44             ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2010-02-08 22:00               ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09  5:48               ` AdaMagica
2010-02-09 14:56                 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10  2:29                   ` Randy Brukardt
2010-02-11 23:46                     ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12  1:29                       ` Randy Brukardt
2010-02-11 23:53                     ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12  1:10                       ` Randy Brukardt
2010-02-10 16:05                   ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-10 20:17                     ` sjw
2010-02-12  0:05                     ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12 11:07                       ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-12 15:01                         ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-13  8:00                           ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-09  9:04               ` stefan-lucks
2010-02-08 17:11           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-02-08 14:56       ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-08 15:36         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-02-08 16:06           ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-08 17:46             ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-02-08 20:39               ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-08 21:54                 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-08 21:50               ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-08 22:04         ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 10:58         ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 14:47           ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-09 19:34             ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 20:19               ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 23:29               ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10  2:39               ` Randy Brukardt
2010-02-10  5:12                 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-10  7:17                   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-10 16:09                   ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10 22:21                     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11  0:48                       ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-09  0:48     ` Randy Brukardt
2010-02-09 12:43     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
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