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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60118c65070501a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-06 10:19:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news1.tor.metronet.ca!nnrp1.tor.metronet.ca!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B97B029.1388FDF5@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Pool Specific Access Types? References: <3B97AA97.1548F906@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 17:19:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:19:39 MDT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12820 Date: 2001-09-06T17:19:39+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > In article <3B97AA97.1548F906@san.rr.com>, Darren New says... > > > >"Mr.Clueless" wrote: > >> N: Numb_pnt; > > > >Not that I have more than a textbook knowledge of Ada, > >but shouldn't this be > > N : Numb_pnt := null; > > > >Where do you initialize the tail of your linked list? > > Sometimes its good to be explicit. However, all Ada pointers get automaticly > initialized to null, if you don't explicitly give an initialization. Coming from a C/C++ background, this is one of the really _great_ features of Ada, that I continue to smile at! :-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg