Re: Ada and pointers

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3B7BFB59.5BBAF07F@san.rr.com>, Darren New says...
> >
> >The other possibility is to encapsulate all the linked-list stuff
> >nicely, giving nice semantic-oriented interfaces, which is more of a
> >pain in C than it's worth in my case.
> 
> If you want to do that, you should probably look at the Ada booch components
> (although for a lot of people, its easier to write a limited array-based queue
> themselves than it is to find and figure out how to instantiate the proper booch
> component).

Actually, I meant it would be easy to encapsulate the linked-list stuff
in a semantically meaningful set of packages in Ada, whereas in C with
its poor namespace control and lack of generics and etc, it's just not
worth the effort.

Certainly, a routine to find the first item on the list whose X field is
less than the value Y is a lot easier to encapsulate in a general way in
Ada than C.

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