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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce0900b60ca3f616 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-02 09:08:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!jfk3-feed1.news.digex.net!sfo2-feed1.news.digex.net!intermedia!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9rti6v$hcu$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9ruc8c$i68$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ruhig$kef$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: List container strawman Message-ID: <3qAE7.10229$xS6.14184@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 12:08:15 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:08:15 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15674 Date: 2001-11-02T17:08:15+00:00 List-Id: In article <9ruhig$kef$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... >up tagged records should not be a problem, right? Could you instantiate with >a 'Class wide type so anything of a class could be put on the list? I don't believe so. However, you can't do that with an array either. In both cases you'd have to use a pointer to your tagged type. That would mean you'd have to avoid the funtional stuff ("&" routines), or at least be careful using it. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.