From: "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>
Subject: Re: pointer questions
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:28:54 -0500
Date: 2005-10-27T13:28:54-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19cfb$4361207d$4995001$19541@ALLTEL.NET> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <djr2pa$d33$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>
Martin Dowie wrote:
> Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> Maybe the kinds of programs I write are different. Question for those
>> who rarely use access types: what sort of application areas are you
>> talking about? Mine are usually software development tools -- such as
>> compilers.
>
>
> Embedded defence apps and I can't remember the last time I needed an
> access type!
>
> There's no need in this sort of app, as you know at compile time what
> the maximum number of anything your system is required to deal with, so
> you can always use a lookup table of some sort (even if it has an
> 'In_Use : Boolean' field/discriminant.
Now that is exactly the domain where I would expect to not see access
types, for the reasons you cite (as well as related reasons having to do
with predictability and the consequences of errors.)
-- Marc A. Criley
-- McKae Technologies
-- www.mckae.com
-- DTraq - XPath in Ada - XML EZ Out
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-26 23:01 pointer questions Szymon Guz
2005-10-26 23:51 ` Gene
2005-10-26 23:58 ` tmoran
2005-10-27 1:12 ` Stephen Leake
2005-10-27 2:30 ` Steve
2005-10-27 5:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-27 10:19 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-27 14:14 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-07 4:21 ` Dave Thompson
2005-10-27 14:11 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-27 15:13 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-27 18:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-27 17:29 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-27 18:28 ` Marc A. Criley [this message]
2005-10-27 19:28 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-28 0:12 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-28 11:57 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-10-28 21:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-30 22:26 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-31 6:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-02 0:52 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-11-02 3:46 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-02 11:16 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-11-02 13:39 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02 15:34 ` Bob Spooner
2005-11-02 18:59 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-27 18:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-28 0:42 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-28 5:58 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-28 21:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-28 11:53 ` David
2005-10-29 12:25 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-27 17:19 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-07 4:21 ` Dave Thompson
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