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From: scp@acl.lanl.gov (Stephen C. Pope)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++, Object Design Methodologies and Software Engineering
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Date: 4 Nov 90 21:07:34 GMT
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In-reply-to: vaughan@mcc.com's message of 3 Nov 90 20:01:59 GMT


on 3 Nov 90 20:01:59 GMT,
vaughan@mcc.com (Paul Vaughan) said:

Paul>    From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette)

Ron>    A related question was discussed awhile back, i.e. the question of
Ron>    why C++ can't be a bit more like Ada.

[...]

Paul> I've suggested this sort of thing for different reasons before, but it
Paul> hasn't sparked any enthusiasm.  I proposed that this sort of
Paul> declaration would help to solve severe modularity problems.  One thing
Paul> that became clear to me was that a very complete declaration is
Paul> required.

There are other problems.  Like inlined methods, which can't be used
in this way since the compiler must know about the implementation
(data members) of the class to generate inline code.

stephen pope
advanced computing lab, lanl
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