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, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,54e6f3bfd18d2769 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alejandro Villanueva <190921@cepsz.unizar.es> Subject: Re: Pointer function parameter Date: 2000/10/23 Message-ID: <39F473DD.1CBAE902@cepsz.unizar.es>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 684886244 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <8ss92s$6fs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.unizar.es X-Trace: news.unizar.es 972322777 20387 155.210.154.31 (23 Oct 2000 17:39:37 GMT) Organization: Universidad de Zaragoza Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Oct 2000 17:39:37 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-23T17:39:37+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > In article , > tmoran@bix.com wrote: > > >virtually all dynamic data structures (linked lists, trees, > etc.) > > >require them. [access types] > > No. People were making those structures using array indexing > and not > > access types a long, long time ago. Look at some old Fortran > code. > > Well of course you can do anything in any style, The reason > that Fortran programmers did this was simple, no pointers! > Now of course there are still cases where arrays can be > usefully used instead of pointers (see the front end of > GNAT and the use of the Table abstraction for example), but > the use of pointers is perfectly fine in Ada, and we should > not think otherwise. Almost nothing *requires* anything if > we are strict about the term, Turing machines are pretty > powerful :-) > You are right! Turing machines can do ANYTHING, and don't forget that also in Assembly ;-) > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. -- ------------------------------------------------------ �Quieres Cobrar por Navegar en Internet? Visita: http://www.navegana.com/dinero/flintstone.html ------------------------------------------------------ Alejandro Villanueva 190921@cepsz.unizar.es ------------------------------------------------------