Re: pointer

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

TC wrote:
> How translate this c code?

It depends on what you mean by "translate". One could write C-in-Ada 
that would be just like this, with all the opportunities for error that 
implies.

However, it looks as if you're implementing a linked list with a record 
as its data. To do that it's probably best to use the list component of 
the standard data-structure library that will be part of Ada 0X. If you 
can't do that, because you don't have an Ada-0X compiler, you can find 
list components in most of the many fine Ada data-structure libraries 
that are available on the web. I recommend the PragmAda Reusable 
Components, but I may be biased.

Looking more closely, this appears to be part of a word-counting 
program, and so probably homework. If you're doing word counting, you 
probably want something that allows O(log N) (or better) insertions and 
lookup, such as a map component from Ada.Containers (Ada 0X), or the 
skip list from the PragmARCs.

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