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Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular!
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On Oct 13, 8:01=A0pm, Jeffrey Carter
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 05:07 AM, ramon_garcia wrote:
>
>
>
> > - Vendor dependency: there are few vendors of Ada products. It is
> > neccessary in practice to use vendor extensions to write useful
> > software. For instance, I must depend on array accesses in GNAT
> > containing both the addess and the bounds of the array. In addition, I
> > also depend on the implementation recomendation that array'adress
> > points to the first element. I also need the extension
> > object'unrestricted_pointer.
>
> If you think you need to rely on this, it is extremely likely that there =
is
> something you don't understand.

I agree.  I do not consider myself as an Ada expert, but I have some
experience and I never needed so far the extensions you refer to.  I
remember that one time I thought that I needed to get the "pointer" to
a variable, but I was a beginner at the time.