From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Conditional compilation in Ada?
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:30:21 GMT
Date: 2004-11-17T20:30:21+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xxOmd.1541$Tq6.592@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aWymd.515430$mD.9284@attbi_s02>
Steve wrote:
> Without knowing more details, this sounds like a good place to use
> OOP.
>
> Instead of directly manipulating the data structure, use procedures
> to manipulate the data structure, and dispatch to the appropriate
> instance type for your target.
I would disagree. Using OOP and dispatching means that the decision
making is dynamic and occurs at run time. Using variant records and case
statements allows everything to be static and determined at compile time.
--
Jeff Carter
"I'm a kike, a yid, a heebie, a hook nose! I'm Kosher,
Mum! I'm a Red Sea pedestrian, and proud of it!"
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2004-11-16 18:30 Conditional compilation in Ada? jtg
2004-11-16 18:45 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-16 20:41 ` Nick Roberts
2004-11-17 8:36 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-11-16 19:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-16 19:13 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-11-16 19:41 ` Björn Lundin
2004-11-16 20:08 ` tmoran
2004-11-16 20:27 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-11-16 23:49 ` Jim Rogers
2004-11-16 20:43 ` Martin Dowie
2004-11-16 19:06 ` tmoran
2004-11-17 9:39 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-11-17 16:39 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-11-17 2:44 ` Steve
2004-11-17 20:30 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2004-11-18 4:09 ` Steve
2004-11-18 6:49 ` Martin Dowie
2004-11-18 15:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-11-18 19:12 ` Martin Dowie
2004-11-18 17:34 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-18 17:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-18 18:03 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-11-19 3:00 ` Steve
2004-11-19 21:35 ` Simon Wright
2004-11-20 2:56 ` Steve
2004-11-20 16:57 ` Simon Wright
2004-11-17 9:28 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-17 13:39 ` Stephen Leake
2004-11-17 10:02 ` Frank Piron
2004-11-17 12:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-11-17 14:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-18 15:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-11-18 22:10 ` Brian May
2004-11-19 9:03 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-20 17:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-11-21 9:14 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-12 0:36 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-12-12 0:17 ` How to switch off those damm warnings about unknows pragma Lionel Draghi
2004-12-13 11:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-13 15:07 ` Peter Amey
2004-11-20 1:05 ` Conditional compilation in Ada? Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2004-11-20 17:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-11-23 1:15 ` Arthur Schwarz
2004-11-23 15:42 ` skidmarks
2004-11-17 12:27 ` Marin David Condic
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2004-11-19 9:13 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
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