Re: Various Language Architecture Questions

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

frankgerlach@gmail.com wrote:
> Whatabout the following examples:
> 1.) Simple,unportabe Network Data Transport: To transport a C struct, I
> just cast it to char* and then write sizeof(myStruct) bytes to the
> Socket. This is very fast and works in a homogeneous network.

Pascal Obry has mentioned the 'Write attribute.
That is something you can supply for a record type,
together with a socket stream, for example.
 You could have the stream implementation just write
a number of storage_elements to the socket for a record
value.

> 2.) Using Unchecked_conversion() in Ada kills range checking ? That
> seems to be inferior to java...

Consider the name of the thing: Unchecked_Conversion. That is,
a non-checked re-interpretation of the bits. There are checked conversions,
too.