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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f1e0b399cd01cb0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: Unreferenced lock variables Date: 1999/04/16 Message-ID: <3717b138.18355578@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 467297738 References: <7ero31$n46$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7esrmv$k1n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3713b417.22324981@news.pacbell.net> <7f57g5$rpq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371658a7.19974365@news.pacbell.net> <7f6ei7$tvl$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3717869e.7448255@news.pacbell.net> <37179A21.82A1AF7@averstar.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.pbi.net 924299819 206.170.24.51 (Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:56:59 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:56:59 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: What we really need is a way to speak of an 'extended object', eg, a linked list of objects or an attached set of peripheral devices, etc.. The only way now is to make controlled components and then have them do list walking or hardware setup/takedown, or whatever. The abstract "object" in those cases is something much larger than a single chunk of data.