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-Thread: 103376,a6449b2443dcdda1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!1g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Access keyword Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3c4dd22c-6b94-4444-b31a-abed35cf498e@1g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <2cc577f4-704a-4235-aad4-a29186309c02@k10g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1209592721 6498 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2008 21:58:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 1g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21153 Date: 2008-04-30T14:58:41-07:00 List-Id: On Apr 30, 2:32 pm, Maciej Sobczak wrote: > On 30 Kwi, 17:20, Adam Beneschan wrote: > > > I suspect that Randy was talking only about anonymous access-to-object > > parameters. > > Then I don't really see what kind of "rotten" design they could > possibly support. > The only documented use for them in Ada that I've seen was to simplify > the definition of List_Node-like records. That would be an anonymous-access type of a record component (which was added in Ada 2005), not an anonymous-access subprogram parameter (which was added in Ada 95). -- Adam