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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Type safety on wikipedia
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:58:22 +0100
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I found this interesting article on Wikipedia which made me think a
> bit:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety
> 
> Do have a look at the talk page as well.

After reading that I'm not sure how Ada can be type safe if unchecked 
deallocation is a common way of implementing relatively common tasks as 
linked lists and so. The explicit example given for "type unsafety" is 
easily doable in Ada.

But I acknowledge that I'm new to the topic, anyone can explain?