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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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: 2003-09-15 18:46:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:46:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.176.54 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1063676765 162.84.176.54 (Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:46:05 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:46:05 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42556 Date: 2003-09-16T01:46:05+00:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney wrote: > The multiple views idiom in Ada95 doesn't preclude that at all. It's fine, but what's wrong with letting the language handle the plumbing for you, instead of making you do it yourself? And the bit about access discriminants getting initialized with the address of the object containing them seems a little gimmicky to me, compared to arbitrary constructors.