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,f2a0e357565ca388 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-26 12:15:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: case tools Date: 26 Mar 2003 20:13:41 +0000 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1048709712 13522 62.49.19.209 (26 Mar 2003 20:15:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:15:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35741 Date: 2003-03-26T20:13:41+00:00 List-Id: martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie) writes: > what do you mean by "architectural features"? I guess I meant "code generation features". As I remember Rose Ada, you could specfy for an individual class -- amongst many other features -- whether you wanted a pointer-to-instance type, what it was to be called, and what an automatically-generated parameter of this type was to be called (defaults project-selectable, eg yes, Handle and This). This is "architectural" in the sense that if you're to be easily able to write code to access structures generated from my part of the model, it's a great help if you can _know_ what the code generation rules are, without the possibility of my changing my part of the mapping on a whim.