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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Amount of copying on returned constant objects
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:04:11 +0300
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Pascal Obry wrote:

> Alex R. Mosteo a écrit :
>> type Constant_Access is access constant Element_Type;
>> function Element (Key : Key_Type) return Constant_Access;
> 
> Or in a more Ada 2005 way:
> 
>    function Element
>      (Key : Key_Type) return access constant Element_Type;
> 
> Pascal.

Certainly. I thought that constant wasn't appliable to anonymous accesses in
function results (for no special reason on my part).