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From: "Dmitriy Anisimkov" <anisimkov@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: GCC 4.0 Ada.Containers Cursor danger.
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<< Else nothing demonstrates
that Adaified STL style algorithms must be a desaster. >>

So Ada.Containers is an "Adaified STL". Cursors in the C++ STL looks
normally,
because it looks like high level analog of the pointer arithmetic. I
don't think that
such analog should be ported into Ada, where was no pointer arithmetic
due to the safety
reasons.

I think runtime checks of the Ada cursors is worse then do not use the
cursors
at all. If programmer want to keep pointer to container elements in the
somewhere else, he
should put elements into container dynamically allocated, and have an
access to
it whereever he need.