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Subject: Re: Type safety on wikipedia
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 12:14 +0100, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
 
> > The Unchecked_Deallocation has to be instantiated for a specific type.
> > Is there a way of using it that isn't type safe?  (Surely it isn't the
> > type that's "Unchecked" ?)
> 
> If I've understood things correctly, the problem isn't that UD is typed, 
> but that once you start manipulating heap pointers by hand, you're out 
> of the game (due to dangling pointers and so).

I have added a sentence on the effects of pragma Pure to the Ada section
of the article. (No named access types.)


-- Georg