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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	Note that, as with Pascal, Modula-2 requires the user to explicitly
> code pointer dereference operations. Ada rarely needs such as one can
> not perform arithmetic on access types.

Still, Ada programmers can do any pointer arithmetic they want,
using System.Storage_Elements (cf. 13.7.1).