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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: "access constant" discriminant
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:49:40 -0800
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Randy Brukardt wrote:

> Never, ever use an explicit access in Ada95 if you can avoid it. Save
> explicit accesses for dynamic allocation.

Except, perhaps, as access to subprograms.  This turns out to be
a powerful capability of Ada 95.

Richard Riehle