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,e94a7e4f6f888766 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Matthew Heaney" Subject: Re: Self-referential types Date: 1999/10/12 Message-ID: <3803bfb9_4@news1.prserv.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 536011927 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <7ttb4a$8mq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3802f2db_2@news1.prserv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net X-Trace: 12 Oct 1999 23:09:45 GMT, 129.37.62.159 Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services Mime-version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , "news.oxy.com" wrote: > As for me I never used such thing and was not sure that it makes any sense > to apply access attrubute to anything except oject instance. It *is* an object instance. The expression T'Access, inside the declaration of a type, refers to the "current instance," which is of course an object. > In other languages there exists "Self" parameter and when it is used in > class declarations it refers to current class instance. Same thing, different syntax. > You might put a short article regarding this issue to Adapower. > I am sure it will be very useful. My plan is to put an article in the Design Patterns archive; David will cross-post at AdaPower. Matt -- Creationists attempt to draw a line between evolutionary biology and the rest of science by remarking that large-scale evolution cannot be observed. This tactic fails. Large-scale evolution is no more inaccessible to observation than nuclear reactions or the molecular composition of water. Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism Philip Kitcher