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From: Frank Heckenbach
Subject: [GPC]: daily digest (#613)
Date: 1 Feb 2005, 21:49:48

Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> Correct, those are not features of Ada.  Ada *does* have features like
> AND THEN and OR ELSE (like GPC's AND_THEN, OR_ELSE),

But these are not Turbo Pascal features, but Extended Pascal.

> and a number of
> really cool features that are not even part of GPC to my knowledge.  

Probably.

> Ada *does* have type casts, but they are neither 'unchecked' nor
> arbitrary.

I thought so. So they're not quite like TP's type casts.

> Ada also supports exceptions, and a somewhat strict variation on
> inheritance using extensible records:
> 
> type oldRec is
>      record
>          oldField : Integer;
>      end record;
> 
> type newRec is new oldRec with
>      record
>          newField : Integer;
>      end record;
> 
> (newRec will have two fields: oldField and newField).

OK, that's quite similar to TP's objects (without the methods).

Frank

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