RE: [vhdl-200x-ft] Question on Type and Package Generics

Selon Peter Ashenden <peter@ashenden.com.au>:

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> > > Ada-95 introduced object orientation through extensions to packages
> > > and to types and operations defined in packages.
> > I don't agree on the last point: extensions to packages (aka
> > child packages) is not object orientation.
>
> I was not referring to child packages. (I apologize if I've abused
> terminology.) Rather, in Ada-95, the extensions are by declaring a package
> that derives a new type from a parent type in another package. The deriving
> package can add further primitive operations to those defined in the
> original package. In this sense, the type and operations in the second
> package extend those of the first package.
Ok, I have misunderstood what you said.
Please note in Ada95 you don't need a new package to derive a new type. You
can derive in the same package.

Tristan.
Received on Thu Jan 20 04:56:08 2005