- Author:
- Holloway C. Michael
Several different ways to add linguistic support for object-oriented programming to the Ada programming language have been proposed and developed in recent years. DRAGOON is one such Ada extension. This paper describes the DRAGOON syntax for classes, objects, and inheritance, and it evaluates the syntax against the following five criteria: readability, writeability, lack of ambiguity, ease of translation, and consistency with existing Ada syntax. The evaluation reveals several deficiencies in the notation. The paper concludes with a proposal for a revised syntax that corrects these deficiencies.
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