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From: Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/03/30
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unfortunately, ALIASED is neccessary in most bindings to C-written APIs.

 Robert Dewar wrote:
 > The point is that aliasing is generally speaking very bad
 > practice. The facility for pointing to variables was introduced
 > in Ada 95 with reluctance when certain convincing examples
 > were given, including in particular the construction of
 > static structures involving pointers.
 > 
 > It should be VERY sparingly used, really it should be regarded
 > like Unchecked_Conversion, a noisy declaration that you intend
 > to do something rather undesirable, namely in this case the
 > creation of possibly confusing aliases for the variable.