From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:40:36 GMT
Date: 2002-10-18T00:40:36+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccy98wtw8r.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DAF0ECE.7080204@acm.org
Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:
> There are no "methods", abstract or otherwise, in Ada. Ada has
> subprograms and entries; subprograms are either procedures or
> functions. Nary a method in sight.
Bah. Why be so pedantic about teriminology? I'm happy to call
dispatching operations "methods", informally, because that's what
they're called in some other languages. I'm also happy to talk about
"pointers", although when I was writing the RM I had to call them
"access values". And if a Fortran programmer asks, "Does Ada have
subroutines", it would be silly to say "No, Ada has no such thing."
And I'm happy to talk about "record fields", even thought the official
term is "record components".
- Bob
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-17 13:36 Abstract methods in ADA95 Hector Hugo
2002-10-17 14:39 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-10-17 14:50 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-17 14:57 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-17 14:56 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-17 16:18 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-17 19:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-17 19:41 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-17 20:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-10-18 13:56 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-10-18 0:40 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2002-10-18 21:05 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 22:00 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-21 14:46 ` Wes Groleau
2002-10-18 3:13 ` SteveD
2002-10-18 14:44 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-18 21:15 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-10-18 21:08 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 21:23 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-18 21:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-18 22:08 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-21 15:03 ` Peter Amey
2002-10-21 15:04 ` Wes Groleau
2002-10-18 22:10 ` Robert A Duff
2002-10-19 12:40 ` SteveD
2002-10-19 18:40 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-21 15:34 ` Martin Dowie
2002-10-21 19:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-22 11:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-10-22 12:24 ` Marin David Condic
2002-10-23 9:29 ` Martin Dowie
2002-10-23 10:36 ` Ed Falis
2002-10-23 10:37 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-23 12:54 ` John English
2002-10-23 13:48 ` Martin Dowie
[not found] ` <aornkp$mpf$1@bob.news.rcn.net>
2002-10-19 18:54 ` Crapper (was: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95) Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-21 17:57 ` Abstract methods in ADA95 Programmer Dude
2002-10-21 18:58 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-21 14:49 ` Wes Groleau
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