Re: pointers & OOP

[Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net>]

John Robinson <chat@jr-and-assoc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <m3k8uszln5.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>, Matthew Heaney
> <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes
>>John Robinson <john@jr-and-assoc.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> It is difficult to do anything really useful with Ada 95 OOP features
>>> without the use of pointers.

Or to do anything with any data type whose size may wildly vary, if
you want to use it as a building-block for more sophisticated data
structures.  This isn't OO-specific, although it's certainly true
of OO.  For instance, you can't have an array of "string."  You have
to have an array of access-to-string.

I didn't see the original message, just some replies.  Was there a
more-significant statement this was intended to show or support?

Best,
Sam Mize

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