From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.105.230 with SMTP id gp6mr3465980obb.18.1406925541179; Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:39:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.49.68 with SMTP id p62mr25777qga.21.1406925541111; Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!h18no12183907igc.0!news-out.google.com!b3ni5434qac.1!nntp.google.com!v10no3820081qac.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 13:39:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.53.78.59; posting-account=ShYTIAoAAABytvcS76ZrG9GdaV-nXYKy NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.53.78.59 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5aa0a458-fa4a-479d-b51f-b8658dc0d11f@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: We should introduce aliased types From: sbelmont700@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:39:01 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21385 Date: 2014-08-01T13:39:01-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, August 1, 2014 2:54:06 PM UTC-4, Victor Porton wrote: > I think we should introduce aliased types to allow self-referencing objec= ts=20 >=20 > and objects which we can access for object's internal purposes: >=20 I would rather see "not aliased" subprogram parameters (and I guess also re= turn values) to help do fun things with constructor functions. At the very= least it would make smart pointers safer, but I have lots of other dreams = about limited types (though it would probably be too complex to really work= ). -sb