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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-16 00:12:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!feed.news.qwest.net!namche.sun.com!news1brm.central.sun.com!new-usenet.uk.sun.com!not-for-mail From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: 16 Sep 2003 09:05:29 +0200 Organization: Sun Microsystems Message-ID: References: <20030915202554.50c76aee.falis@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: khepri06.norway.sun.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: new-usenet.uk.sun.com 1063695930 18960 129.159.112.195 (16 Sep 2003 07:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@new-usenet.uk.sun.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Sep 2003 07:05:30 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42560 Date: 2003-09-16T07:05:30+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "EF" == Ed Falis writes: EF> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:31:08 GMT EF> Matthew Heaney wrote: >> The multiple views idiom in Ada95 doesn't preclude that at all. See >> my post on Mon, 15 Sep 2003, in which My_Object type "inherits" from >> two existing types. It inherits both interface and implementation, >> and the only new code I wrote was for trivial multiple views >> infrastructure. EF> Matt's on the money with this one. I've used the same idiom to EF> implement things I've designed using Reenskaug's role synthesis EF> approach. The thing I will say, though, is that it takes a lot more EF> plumbing to do it in Ada than to do it in eg Eiffel. EF> - Ed Which was my original point, not that it could not be done. -- This page intentionally left blank