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: 103376,76ec5d55630beb71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-02 08:05:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!freenix!jussieu.fr!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213.200.246.247!not-for-mail From: Vinzent Hoefler Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 200X Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:04:18 +0200 Organization: JeLlyFish software Message-ID: References: <3EDAD07A.3010200@attbi.com> <1054562949.551399@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054565992.652258@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.200.246.247 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054566336 9469894 213.200.246.247 (16 [175126]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38360 Date: 2003-06-02T17:04:18+02:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: >Vinzent Hoefler wrote: >> Yes, but who is the ancestor? You always have to look for that. > >That's fine. Yes, it works. :) >I'm given to understand that Ada is meant to be >for the convenience of the reader, not the writer. It may be >more work for you to look up the ancestor, but then the reader >of the code will know exactly where to look for the code. Yes, it's ok for the first time you have to write it. The problem sometimes is that all these view conversions should be changed when you make a change to the object hierarchy and insert another object, so that the former father is now suddenly the grandfather. Because in the way the view conversion works, this is legal, but it might be wrong. YMMV. Vinzent.