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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:20:14 +0100
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> Hans Malherbe wrote:

>>Can you pass pointers to these functions around?
> 
> 
> Yes, you can pass 'pointers' to functions around - this is being enhanced
> futher in Ada2005, so that at compile time you can guarentee never to
> pass a 'NULL' value.

This is something I don't fully understand. IFAIK,

procedure Proc (Blah : access Some_Type);

access parameters raise an excepcion if null. So I don't get what adds 
to the language the

Blah : not null access ...

construct.