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: 103376,565ee1c43df7874f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-12 09:12:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: array of operations Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:15:55 GMT Message-ID: <3d80bd8d.30112108@news.demon.co.uk> References: <3D7E0EB1.2070708@attbi.com> <7vfzwh9dkl.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <3D80A553.5030208@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1031847148 15860 158.152.226.81 (12 Sep 2002 16:12:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:12:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28869 Date: 2002-09-12T16:15:55+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:32:10 GMT, Mark Biggar wrote: >Ehud Lamm wrote: >>>Not true. Since it is always OK to take 'Unchecked_Access of a parameter >>>of a tagged type in Ada 95, you generally do not need to explicitly use >>>"aliased". Claw uses this extensively to provide an interface which is >>>mostly without access types, yet internally everything is linked >>>together. (Claw uses finalization to prevent dangling pointers in this >>>case). > >> Sure. You can rephrase what I wrote, "You usually need to decalre aliased >> objects, or use 'Unchecked_Access." :-) > >um, tagged objects are by definition aliased, see ARM 3.10(9). No need >for an explisit declaration. Do you mean this bit: "and a formal parameter or generic formal object of a tagged type are defined to be aliased"? Note the word "generic". As far as I can see, you are mistaken.