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: 103376,7010058c6812c56a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: pointers References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <3fPfg.758937$084.534436@attbi_s22> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1149222975 12.201.97.176 (Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:36:15 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:36:15 GMT Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:36:15 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4643 Date: 2006-06-02T04:36:15+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Jeff Carter "Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!" Monty Python's Flying Circus 53