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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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  reply	other threads:[~1999-05-04  0:00 UTC|newest]

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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