From: mcc@entropy.cs.princeton.edu (Martin C. Carlisle)
Subject: Re: pointers & OOP
Date: 1999/05/04
Date: 1999-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7gmvdb$9il$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7gl43b$2481@news2.newsguy.com
In article <7gl43b$2481@news2.newsguy.com>,
Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net> wrote:
>John Robinson <chat@jr-and-assoc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> It is difficult to do anything really useful with Ada 95 OOP features
>>>> without the use of pointers.
>
>I didn't see the original message, just some replies. Was there a
>more-significant statement this was intended to show or support?
A very good question, as in Java, e.g., you can't do anything without
heap allocated objects (although the fact you are using pointers is a bit
more obscured). I almost always use pointers with my tagged records, simply
because it is impossible to have an array of non-homogenous objects.
--Martin
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-01 0:00 pointers & OOP Matthew Heaney
1999-05-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle [this message]
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Francois Godme
1999-05-05 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-05 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-05-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-10 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-14 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-08 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-05-06 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-08 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-05-10 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-06 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-10 0:00 ` John Robinson
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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1999-05-01 0:00 Tom Moran
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