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> As a matter of style this makes me think that
> someone seems well versed in using Turbo Pascal and C++.
> Trying to transform idioms from said languages into Ada=20
> won=E2=80=99t help when trying to put the language to good use.
> As seen, there will be all kinds of pointer stuff.
>=20
> To mimic constructors using functions is one such attempt, I think.

Interesting, so I can't trust the one person that made my course, to provid=
e me with good habits and programming mindset. I was surprised to see point=
ers being used like this, while the course says Ada is made to provide OOP =
without explicit (nor implicit) access types. I hope there are good books o=
nline about good practices ? Perhaps do you have a website yourself, G.B. ?