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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
Subject: Re: Task entries and access to subprograms.
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:23:56 +0200
Date: 2005-04-07T09:23:56+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4254E00C.30908@mailinator.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sz05e.2222$yq6.1165@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>

Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> 
>> type AInt is access all Integer;
>> type Code is access procedure;
> 
> 
>>    entry Two (I : AInt); -- No complaint. Legal?
> 
> 
> This was legal in Ada 83, and that wasn't changed by Ada 95.
> 
>>    entry Four (C : Code); -- No complaint.
> 
> 
> There's a difference between access parameters and parameters of an 
> access type.

Yep. I just feel a bit disturbed when something with a so easy 
workaround is forbidden.

I see reading the rationale that here the prohibition is more of a 
convenience for the compiler writers than a true restriction for users.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-06 10:25 Task entries and access to subprograms Alex R. Mosteo
2005-04-06 10:54 ` Adrien Plisson
2005-04-06 12:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-06 12:22   ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-04-07  2:05 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-07  7:23   ` Alex R. Mosteo [this message]
2005-04-07 14:01     ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-07 23:23     ` Randy Brukardt
2005-04-08  6:49       ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-04-08 14:49         ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-08 15:23           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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