From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: pointer questions
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:56:48 GMT
Date: 2005-10-27T05:56:48+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A_Z7f.2112$Rl1.1471@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <djp1tm$186k$1@node3.news.atman.pl>
Szymon Guz wrote:
> I've got some maybe stupid questions but I don't understand some things:
>
> 1. Is there a pointer like (void *) from C that points to anything ?
>
> 2. Is there a universal (like above) pointer for procedure|function that
> can point to any kind of procedure|funcion ?
The short answer, as you've already heard, is No.
The long answer is that you'll never need these to use Ada. In fact, you'll
rarely need pointers at all. If you think you do, especially for beginning Ada,
then you're probably misunderstanding something.
About the only time you'd need anything like these is when interfacing to C.
Judging from your questions, I suspect your understanding of Ada is not yet at a
level where you should be doing that.
--
Jeff Carter
"From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish."
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-26 23:01 pointer questions Szymon Guz
2005-10-26 23:51 ` Gene
2005-10-26 23:58 ` tmoran
2005-10-27 1:12 ` Stephen Leake
2005-10-27 2:30 ` Steve
2005-10-27 5:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2005-10-27 10:19 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-27 14:14 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-07 4:21 ` Dave Thompson
2005-10-27 14:11 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-27 15:13 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-27 18:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-27 17:29 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-27 18:28 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-27 19:28 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-28 0:12 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-28 11:57 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-10-28 21:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-30 22:26 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-31 6:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-02 0:52 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-11-02 3:46 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-02 11:16 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-11-02 13:39 ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02 15:34 ` Bob Spooner
2005-11-02 18:59 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-27 18:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-28 0:42 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-28 5:58 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-28 21:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-28 11:53 ` David
2005-10-29 12:25 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-27 17:19 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-07 4:21 ` Dave Thompson
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