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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fed2e7871ca258cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-29 22:31:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C2EB518.5040805@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20010929 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: List Container Strawman 1.4 References: <87lmfsn2jj.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3C2CA143.6030006@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 06:31:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.202.77.130 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1009693883 151.202.77.130 (Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:31:23 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:31:23 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18400 Date: 2001-12-30T06:31:23+00:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney wrote: > In the example below I wrote an array iterator and a Generic_Copy algorithm > that works for any target type. ... > use type System.Storage_Elements.Storage_Offset; > function To_Iterator is > new Ada.Unchecked_Conversion (System.Address, Iterator_Type); The generic copy seems good, but all of that address manipulation seems ver un-Adalike to me (and I'm not an Ada programmer!)