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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: garbage collection
Date: 1999/08/21
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In article <37be0c85@news1.us.ibm.net>,
  "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
> That's one nice thing about C++.  You can implement a pointer
> abstraction that has a syntax identical to a built-in pointer.
> In Ada95, you have to implement a "handle" type that provides
> a dereference operator:

Not in GNAT, simply derive from the Checked_Pool abstraction,
providing an appropriate Dereference function.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies


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