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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: containers and garbage collections.
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:59:11 +0200
Date: 2003-09-16T19:59:11+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2203063.rkHteqzyCe@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uu17d7ij8.fsf@earthlink.net

Matthew Heaney wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
 
>> What you will lose with it, and there is always something to lose, is
>> that the type operations will not be considered dispatching. So if the
>> actual of Element_Type is class-wide, and you want to dispatch
>> somewhere in a generic body, you will need to pass a [class-wide]
>> wrapper subprogram around a primitive operation instead of the
>> primitive operation itself.

> That wasn't required for his problem.  All the dispatching is done
> outside of the generic.

Initialize, Adjust, and Finalize are dispatching and will implicitly be
called (on GNAT by the hidden procedures Deep_Initialize, Deep_Adjust, and
Deep_Finalize which are also dispatching).

Still, I found you suggestion very interesting and I have started to work on
it.

With Regards

Martin

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-09-16 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-12 15:32 containers and garbage collections Martin Krischik
2003-09-12 16:41 ` Stephen Leake
2003-09-13  9:37   ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-13  3:33 ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-13  9:45   ` Martin Krischik
2003-09-13 17:10     ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-15 13:47     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-09-15 23:11       ` Matthew Heaney
2003-09-16 17:59         ` Martin Krischik [this message]
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