Re: pointers

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>]

Sch�le Daniel wrote:
> 
> are there some page out there explaining Ada pointers for
> C programmers?

The important thing for a C person to learn about Ada is not how to use 
access types, but how many things that cannot be done without pointers 
in C can be done without them in Ada. For most applications (language 
processing tools apparently excepted) you should never need to use 
access types in your code. The only time you'd use access types is to 
create dynamic data structures, and there only in the implementation, 
not the interface; since so many fine libraries already provide such 
structures and hide the access types, you'd only do that as a learning 
experience.

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