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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,442a61fa28886220 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-23 10:49:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for a programming newb. References: <4zuab.5439$U6.3722@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> <%BFab.61$7W4.35@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0J%bb.789$RW4.667@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:49:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.215 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net 1064339388 63.184.105.215 (Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:49:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:49:48 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42816 Date: 2003-09-23T17:49:48+00:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > "Jeffrey Carter" a �crit dans le message de news:TbIbb.2618$gR1.1025@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net... > >>No, he puts the old Rosen in the refrigerator in the basement, to be >>used in the future on another customer. > > Please bear in mind in that discussion that Rosen is an overloaded name, with a very > different parameter profile.... ;-) To us, yes. But to C++, a pointer is a pointer, so the barber can treat all Rosens the same. -- Jeff Carter "I've got to stay here, but there's no reason why you folks shouldn't go out into the lobby until this thing blows over." Horse Feathers 50