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: 103376,524c88695fa43591,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: G Subject: Learning Ada & a question Date: 2000/04/11 Message-ID: <38F2E992.EDB2DCCE@interact.net.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 609558743 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@asiaonline.net X-Trace: news.interact.net.au 955443725 203.24.148.75 (Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:02:05 EST) Organization: ... X-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:02:05 EST (news.interact.net.au) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:02:05 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I'm going slow on learning Ada95 just now and hitting the C++ textbooks. Why ? (Or does it even matter...) because I am finding that to get a handle on programming techniques and data structures, etc. - it is neccessary to "triangulate" between several resources and then work the meaning out from there. As there are many more books out there on C++, it gives me a broader view of things. I live in Australia and have to order books from overseas if I want texts on Ada. (Hard copies are more comfortable). I don't think it C++ "feels" as good as Ada, in a cognitive sense of a language and using that language but I have a question about something which I am dealing with now in C++ which relates to something I was thinking about in Ada. In C++ they have devised all these ingenious little techniques for getting more than one return value from a function. I am just wrapping my mind around the notion of pass-by-reference with pointers and references. I know that access types are a sort of pointer in Ada. Can you do the same things in Ada ? Do you need to when Procedures can be called just as easily as functions anyways and return as many things as you need ? (I maybe didnt say that right). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- G.M. Wallace Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------- p.s. - if that Serbian hack is true, that is I guess what is called information warfare. It is interesting that as with terrorism and the media - the real effect such acts may have probably lies in the proliferation of knowledge about the act... as evidenced by the fact that this person has probably posted to just about every newsgroup available in an attempt top achieve notoriety. that's my two bits worth