From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Array of Variant Records Question...
Date: 1999/09/09
Date: 1999-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37d822a1@news1.prserv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7r8t21$ov5$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <7r8t21$ov5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> , Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> 2) the ability to cast away const w/o using
> Sys.Addr_To_Acc_Convs
>
> Sorry, no idea what this means
To be able to modify an in-mode subprogram parameter. Essentially, what ACT
did to implement the function Random in GNAT.
(The locution "cast away const" comes from C++.)
>> 6) the ability to invoke a constructor/initializer for limited types in the
>> declarative region
>
> sorry, I do not know what you mean here, and I certainly
> do not know what a constructor is, example would be useful.
In Ada, constructor = function. (That is why there's a problem.)
Example:
type LT is limited private;
function Init (<some params>) return LT;
...
declare
O : LT := Init (...);
begin
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-08 0:00 Array of Variant Records Question Bruce Detter
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-09-14 0:00 ` "cast away const" (was Re: Array of Variant Records Question...) Mark Lundquist
[not found] ` <wccd7viiv59.fsf@world.std.com>
[not found] ` <7rrmqd$l89@drn.newsguy.com>
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1999-09-22 0:00 ` Array of Variant Records Question Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
[not found] ` <7roohh$s6r@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
[not found] ` <37e01168@news1.prserv.net>
[not found] ` <7rp86o$c6h@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
[not found] ` <37E18CC6.C8D431B@rational.com>
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[not found] ` <wccemfxn15s.fsf@world.std.com>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` 'constant functions' and access constant params (was Re: Array of Variant Records Question...) Richard D Riehle
[not found] ` <37e2e58c@news1.prserv.net>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Vincent Marciante
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-27 0:00 ` David Kristola
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` "Competence" (was: 'constant functions' and access constant params) Ted Dennison
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Proposed Ada features (was Re: Array of Variant Records Question...) Mark Lundquist
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-10 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Array of Variant Records Question Nick Roberts
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Thank you Bruce Detter
1999-09-08 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
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