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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: List container strawman
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Back in the days of Ada83, this was more of a problem. Now that you have
Finalization, making a List type non-limited is less of a problem.

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"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Sorry, but my point (now ;-) would be that, whilst you can indeed do what
> you say, you wouldn't want to. Because lists are non-limited (hah :-) you
> can have a list of lists (etc.) without any problem. If you have a limited
> type, you don't want a list of objects of that type, you want a list of
> access values referencing them (e.g. consider a list of tasks).
>