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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5394d9ca5f955366 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mcc@entropy.cs.princeton.edu (Martin C. Carlisle) Subject: Re: pointers & OOP Date: 1999/05/04 Message-ID: <7gmvdb$9il$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 473921770 References: <$DL10CAsSgL3Iwj3@jr-and-assoc.demon.co.uk> <7gl43b$2481@news2.newsguy.com> Organization: US Air Force Academy, Dept of Computer Science Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7gl43b$2481@news2.newsguy.com>, Samuel Mize wrote: >John Robinson 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 -- Martin C. Carlisle, Asst Prof of Computer Science, US Air Force Academy carlislem@acm.org, http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/carlisle.html DISCLAIMER: This content in no way reflects the opinions, standards or policy of the US Air Force Academy or the United States Government.