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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to stop inheritance in a good way? Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:51:35 +0100 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <755521b8-d0a8-41bd-b547-da1136e3b8e1@googlegroups.com> <5b231051-71cb-4b97-a1f4-b23332afc80a@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:51:37 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="29c3b49b0ec36e9b4eac52c2b4025ad2"; logging-data="20715"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/KKY7Rz6uAyiWj8NKN0lszf5VWyJgwBp0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wQIXaeh9SCA77f7FSwz1sseONT4= In-Reply-To: <5b231051-71cb-4b97-a1f4-b23332afc80a@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:57866 Date: 2020-01-18T00:51:35+01:00 List-Id: On 1/17/20 5:56 PM, AdaMagica wrote: > Thére were many solutions presented, none really convincing. Probably the OP's problem is one for which programming by type extension is not a good approach. Trying to distort programming by type extension to fit the problem will never work. One should find another approach that is better suited to the problem. -- Jeff Carter "I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age." Blazing Saddles 88