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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: pointers & OOP
Date: 1999/05/04
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In article <7gl43b$2481@news2.newsguy.com>,
  Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net> wrote:
> For instance, you can't have an array of "string."  You have
> to have an array of access-to-string.

But you can have an array of bounded strings, and that may be
fine for many applications, and more than fine for an application
that wants to use an OO approach but is prevented from using any
heap allocation. The Ada 95 OO features are carefully designed to
permit such an approach.

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