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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: put of access type
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:31:48 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:

> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:09:02 -0400, Stephen Leake
>> <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> declaimed the following in
>> comp.lang.ada:
>>
>>> Why do people insist that the value of an access type must be
>>> mysterious? There's a lot to be learned this way.
>>
>> 	Because it is not learning Ada as the language... 
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> Part of learning a language is learning how it works; building a
> mental model of how the generated code will function. At least for
> some people. 

I agree. It is important to learn how language abstractions like "pointer"
could be implemented "if I were a compiler designer".

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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