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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.179.65 with SMTP id c62mr3259970iof.28.1504205833650; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:57:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.53.137 with SMTP id k131mr262187ita.4.1504205833589; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.freedyn.net!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!v20no1149812qtg.0!news-out.google.com!a26ni796qta.0!nntp.google.com!u11no2764887qtu.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:57:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5 References: <73399847-b482-4442-a02f-1bf9c67b467b@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <0a2a6646-21fb-446a-9bc0-1db94947ec00@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Interest in standard smart pointers for Ada 2020 From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:57:13 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47865 Date: 2017-08-31T11:57:13-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:51:26 UTC+1, Peter Chapin wrote: > On 2017-08-31 11:17, Lucretia wrote: > > > I would add auto_ptr too, I've implemented one before, although I think Block_Pointer would be a better Ada name for it. Should be limited, initialised with extended return and frees the contents at the end of the block in which it was instantiated. > > > > FWIW, auto_ptr is depreciated in the C++ standard in favor of > unique_ptr. As I understand it, there are issues in the auto_ptr > interface that make it needlessly awkward. > > Peter Well, that's C++ and their issues. But for Ada, what I stated above would work fine.