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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Ada 'hello world' for Android; success!
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:41:27 -0400
Date: 2011-11-01T04:41:27-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8239e8nsjs.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: j8n7qa$c4l$1@munin.nbi.dk

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message 
> news:82mxciogt0.fsf@stephe-leake.org...
> ...
>> In brief, _any_ framework that uses dispatching on class-wide
>> objects needs reference semantics. In Ada, that is indicated by the
>> explicit word 'access'. In Java, it is implicit. I prefer explicit.
>
> I don't follow this. All tagged objects in Ada are by-reference, so you 
> never need explicit "access" for parameter passing. 

Yes, but that's not the meaning of "reference semantics" I intended; I
mean "an explicit pointer of some sort".

> And class-wide objects can be stored in the Ada containers without
> using "access" as well.

In which case a Cursor provides the explicit pointer. 

We've been around on this before; see
http://stephe-leake.org/ada/access_vs_object.html

I guess it's time to update that with Ada 2012 features.

-- 
-- Stephe



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-01  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27  1:18 Ada 'hello world' for Android; success! Stephen Leake
2011-10-27  7:12 ` Alex R.  Mosteo
2011-10-28 12:51   ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-27 10:50 ` Jeffrey Creem
2011-10-28 13:01   ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-27 10:58 ` Brian Drummond
2011-10-28  1:37 ` Shark8
2011-10-28 12:22 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-29 13:37   ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-29 14:46     ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-29 20:47       ` Brad Moore
2011-10-29 21:59         ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-30  3:51           ` Brad Moore
2011-10-30  7:20             ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2011-10-30 10:56       ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-30 17:32         ` Brad Moore
2011-10-29 15:32     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-29 16:09       ` Simon Wright
2011-10-29 17:32         ` tmoran
2011-10-30 11:38           ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-29 20:51         ` Brad Moore
2011-10-30 11:32       ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-31 22:34         ` Randy Brukardt
2011-11-01  8:41           ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2011-11-01  9:30         ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-02 15:55           ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-02 17:37             ` Robert A Duff
2011-11-08  3:56               ` Randy Brukardt
2011-11-03  0:37             ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-03 11:36               ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-03 15:24                 ` Robert A Duff
2011-11-03 18:43                   ` Pascal Obry
2011-11-03 22:14                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-04  8:48                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-11-04 12:18                   ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-04 15:03                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-05 16:56                       ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-01  9:52         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-11-02 15:59           ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-02 16:27             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-11-02 17:38               ` Simon Wright
2011-11-10 17:25 ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-27 15:18 ` mockturtle
2011-11-28 22:35   ` Ada 'hello world' for Android; success! (but music player failure) Stephen Leake
2011-11-29 11:23     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-11-30  3:33       ` Stephen Leake
2011-11-30 18:57         ` Georg Bauhaus
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