From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c0d4e990924eb044 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.plusnet!news.posted.plusnet.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:55:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:55:43 +0000 From: Tim Rowe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie question -- dereferencing access References: <72516b38-1711-4588-b53b-7b42773f70c2@w34g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1IednThMP8E8sCfUnZ2dnUVZ8suWnZ2d@posted.plusnet> X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-alyUxRxi8GbYdtArvFynBBxSZFt3KAC16r0kp2Bf4tgtGEvyI2jW4lznkTG1X4wOQV31w9K2k69ONGR!yoMX5WzeIAiuNUqjDTx0y9at3ZOJ7l5UAhmsiC0/uwm5yQPJeT8GA7wrL+eEsvXzISuHLWTqjar8!QijYVYyWFEfO X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5071 Date: 2009-03-13T09:55:43+00:00 List-Id: Ed Falis wrote: > Try the books on this page: http://www.adaic.org/free/freebook.html > > Richard Riehle's "Ada Distilled" may be exactly what you're looking for, > as it's aimed at experienced programmers. Thanks. I am now working through "Ada Distilled". I'm a little nervous that it says "very little about Ada.Finalization, Storage Pool Management [...]" -- I hope the "very little" it says is enough for me to be able to use access types without memory leaks! I suppose I'll find out when I get there.