Re: Legal usage of downward closures

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Aug 16, 9:11 am, mala...@magic.fr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have problems understanding the RAT05 section on downward closures.
>
> I thought that anonymous access to a sub-program, as parameter of a
> sub-program, would prevent local copies and further usage out of
> scope.
> Surprisingly, the following example compiles an runs (on GNAT GPL
> 2007).

The assignment statements are illegal.  Every "anonymous access type"
definition defines its own type; therefore Acc1 and Arg don't have the
same type, and neither of those types is the same as Acc2_Type.  GNAT
has a bug if it accepts them.

Furthermore, this would be illegal due to accessibility level rules:

    Acc2 := Acc_Type(Arg);

                               -- Adam




> package Pack is
>   procedure Store (Arg : access procedure);
>   procedure Call;
> end Pack;
>
> package body Pack is
>   Acc1 : access procedure;
>   type Acc_Type is access procedure;
>   Acc2 : Acc_Type;
>
>   procedure Store (Arg : access procedure) is
>   begin
>     Acc1 := Arg;  -- ILLEGAL
>     Acc2 := Arg;  -- ILLEGAL
>   end Store;
>   procedure Call is
>   begin
>     Acc1.all;
>     Acc2.all;
>   end Call;
>
> end Pack;